Eric Blake wrote: > Currently, cygwin does not provide getaddrinfo, even though > SUSv3 specifies it in <sys/socket.h>/<netdb.h>. CVS Coreutils > has been using gnulib to provide a replacement definition, > but recently gnulib was updated to work on mingw, reusing > the winsock headers/libraries to provide getaddrinfo. As a > result, coreutils is now trying to link in -lws2_32 to get > the winsock version of getaddrinfo (and I suspect that will > not work properly). I have used the following as a workaround in several packages: http://www.sra.co.jp/people/m-kasahr/getaddrinfo/ You need only the getaddrinfo.{c,h} from the tarball (and the README for license?) and include it in your sources; exactly how depends on the package. Yaakov -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/