From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2005-04-24T18:05:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Win32: Ruby & APR; build problems for Ruby Subversion SWIG bindings

Hi,

At Wed, 20 Apr 2005 23:37:37 +0900,
Erik Huelsmann wrote in [ruby-core:04747]:
> Oh, but you mean that Ruby should switch to using typedef and somehow
> should detect that the type already exists? I'm not aware of the
> possibility to do so, but if the compiler only issues a warning, that
> would be fine by me.

Such redefinition is disallowed.

> I was also thinking that maybe both sides should use (in the unix
> version of their systems) ruby_pid_t and apr_pid_t. Then, those can be
> defined to pid_t on Unix systems and to int on Win32. Also, it would
> prevent namespace conflicts...

Ruby is just using AC_TYPE_UID_T.  So, using typedef for them,
like as apr.h, means conflicts to all of autoconfiscated
softwares.  I think apr.h should #undef before typedef.

-- 
Nobu Nakada