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Date:      Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:44:53 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sys/bitypes.h (4.10)?
Message-ID:  <20041212214337.J83257@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <cpakfk$1bec$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <cpakfk$1bec$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>

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On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

> I'm getting reports from a user who can't build a port on 4.10,
> because his system has a <sys/bitypes.h> header which contains
> definitions that collide with <sys/inttypes.h> and <sys/types.h>.
>
> As far as I can tell, there is no <sys/bitypes.h> in 4.10.
> In fact, I can't find this header file in the repository except as
> a part of BIND, where it is provided as a compatibility header for
> FreeBSD.  Did we ever install this?

I see a bitypes.h that ships with BIND (and is in src/contrib/bind), but
there isn't an independent FreeBSD version. I suspect someone or something
thought it'd be clever to sneak that in .. it should be OK to remove.

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Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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