Re: speed_t vs. termcap.h in Linux 1.3.79 and greater
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi)
Thu, 4 Apr 1996 08:20:30 +0300 (EET DST)
On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, Michael Meissner wrote:
>
> I rev'ed up to Linux 1.3.79 and then 1.3.81, and found that readline
> won't build. I then rev'ed up to the latest beta libc (5.3.8) and
> termcap (2.0.6), and the error was still there. The reason is it
> includes termcap.h, which has the following lines:
>
> #include <features.h>
> #include <sys/types.h>
>
> extern char PC;
> extern char *UP;
> extern char *BC;
>
> #ifdef __linux__
> extern speed_t ospeed;
> #else
> extern short ospeed;
> #endif
Mmm.. I _think_ that it should include <termios.h>, according to POSIX.
That's where speed_t should be (but I don't have the POSIX stuff here:
it's at the university). So the correct fix would be to just include that
in termcap.h, and then it should work with all kernels.
The #ifdef __linux__ looks a bit suspicious too. speed_t isn't any linux
specific thing, it's quite standard.
Linus