[Rd] Minor issue building 2.3.0 under Red Hat Linux 9

[Peter Kleiweg]

Prof Brian Ripley schreef op de 27e dag van de grasmaand van het jaar 2006:

> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Dominick Samperi wrote:
> 
> > Building R 2.3.0 fails under Red Hat 9.0 because
> > ssize_t is not defined in src/modules/internet/sock.h.
> > Inserting #include <sys/types.h> at the top of this
> > file fixes the problem.
> 
> That's interesting: POSIX says it must be defined in unistd.h, and that is 
> included before sock.h in all the C files AFAICS (and this is why all the 
> Unix-alike platforms tested before release do compile that module).
> 
> It's a bug in RH9 (there seems to be no 9.0), and that is maintained by 
> Fedora Legacy -- do they have an update?

Also SuSE 8.0, see bug PR#8809. And I have ssize_t defined in 
unistd.h, so I guess unistd.h does not get included into 
sockconn.c.


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