>> I'm trying to get some Linux software using network routines to run
>> under NetBSD,
(My sympathies.)
>> and I wonder if it would be possible to our headers that they pull
>> in any additional headers, instead of just breaking because of
>> undefined data types.
> Which headers, specifically, are you thinking of?

I didn't write the original message...BUT, as someone who strongly
believes that headers should never depend on other headers being
included, I've been fixing these problems as I find them.

Here's what I've found, not restricting myself to networking headers.
(Note, this list is hand-typed while flipping through my patch tree, so
it may contain typos, though I've tried to be careful.)

<arpa/inet.h> needs <netinet/in.h>
SPARC <machine/endian.h> needs <machine/types.h>
SPARC <machine/vuid_event.h> needs <sys/time.h> and <sys/types.h>
<net/bpf.h> needs <sys/time.h>
<net/if.h> needs <sys/socket.h>
<net/if_arp.h> needs <sys/socket.h>
<netinet/icmp_var.h> needs <netinet/ip_icmp.h> and <sys/types.h>
<netinet/ip.h> needs <netinet/in.h>
<netinet/ip_icmp.h> needs <netinet/in_systm.h>, <netinet/ip.h>,
	<netinet/in.h>, and <sys/types.h>
<netinet/udp_var.h> needs <netinet/ip_var.h> and <netinet/udp.h>
<netns/ns.h> needs <sys/types.h>
<sys/gmon.h> needs <sys/types.h>
<sys/mman.h> needs <sys/types.h>
<sys/proc.h> needs some, but I have enough other patches to
	sys/sys/proc.h that I can't be confident I've picked out only
	the necessary files.  I find I need <sys/types.h>,
	<sys/param.h>, <sys/cdefs.h>, and <sys/time.h>.
<sys/resource.h> needs <sys/types.h>
<sys/select.h> needs <sys/types.h>
<sys/socket.h> needs <sys/types.h>
<sys/ucred.h> needs <sys/param.h> and <sys/types.h>
<sys/uio.h> needs <sys/types.h>
<sys/un.h> needs <sys/types.h>
<ufs/ffs/fs.h> needs <sys/param.h> and <ufs/ufs/dinode.h>

> there are standards conformance issues to consider before doing this.

How so?  Certainly in many of the above cases, file A, if included
without file B, produces compiler errors; if you can't even compile
when you include A without including B, I have no hesitation making A
include B itself - either the standard with which this putatively
disagrees is sufficiently broken to be ignored, or A is broken for
needing B in the first place (and needs fixing, but in the meantime
it's nice to be able to compile programs).

					der Mouse

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