On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Joe Halpin wrote:

> This patch elminates the warning about sys_nerr on FreeBSD:

> < extern int sys_nerr;
> ---
> > extern const int sys_nerr;

> I'm pretty sure it should be const anyway. This doesn't cause any problems
> on Solaris 9 either.

But my (somewhat oldish) glibc headers have it non-const... :-(

> * The symbols _sys_errlist and _sys_nerr are not visible in the
> * LP64 libc. Use strerror(3C) instead.

I could almost have guessed this. So we need to rewrite the Curl_strerror()
function to avoid using 'sys_nerr' to avoid having to check for it with yet
another configure test. At least for non-Windows platforms.

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