[gpm] socklen_t handling

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sunday 01 June 2008, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> Mike Frysinger [Sat, May 31, 2008 at 12:23:20AM -0400]:
> > is there a reason the usage of socklen_t in gpm is inconsistent ?
>
> "it's all about history..."
>
> > if the code
> > base you're building against doesnt supply socklen_t, it's a great big
> > pile imo (this is after all required by POSIX).  if we want to support
> > such crappy systems, we should move the socklen_t check into configure
> > and have the source assume it's available.
>
> I think that's a good solution (autoconf/assume it is there/exit error
> if not).

ive committed this then to gpm-1 ... configure checks for the socklen_t type 
and all gpm code assumes socklen_t is available
-mike
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