Re: cygwin-latest: compile errors related to sockaddr_storage, dirent->d_type and dirent->d_ino

On 1/19/06, Petr Baudis [off-list ref] wrote:

  But of course when this goes on, soon the gcc commandline will get
really awfully ugly. This is why something _like_ autoconf is a good
thing - you can just detect if the system headers provide the type and
#define it only when they don't.

not you. Someone has done the job of detecting things for you.
It's just a fair amount of hard work badly done.