speed_t vs. termcap.h in Linux 1.3.79 and greater

Michael Meissner (meissner@cygnus.com)
Wed, 3 Apr 1996 14:03:25 -0500

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

In Linux 1.3.77, speed_t is defined in sys/types.h. In 1.3.79 and
beyond, speed_t has been moved to asm/termbits.h. For a quick hack, I
just added an include of <asm/termbits.h> right after the #ifdef
__linux__, but it might be nice if some sort of change made its way
into the offical sources.

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