Re: Compilation failure for mingw64 target (was New ARI warning Fri Mar 15 02:02:12 UTC 2013 in -D 2013-03-15-gmt)

Mike Frysinger
2013-03-15T18:33:38Z

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On Friday 15 March 2013 14:27:59 Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> > Cc: pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr, yao@codesourcery.com,
> >
> > gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> >
> > Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:21:59 -0600
> >
> > Eli> I'd prefer that we provide a mkdir macro or maybe a gdb_mkdir
> > function Eli> that would hide this ugliness from the mainline sources.
> > A macro Eli> called 'mkdir' could on MS-Windows call a function called
> > '_mkdir' Eli> ignoring the second argument.
> >
> > There's a gnulib mkdir module.
>
> That's another possibility, yes. Although for such a simple job I'm
> not sure the gnulib complexity is justified. But I don't object to
> using the gnulib mkdir module.

we pulled in gnulib specifically to avoid growing a custom compat layer in gdb.
seems like adding it to the existing gnulib list is pretty trivial work.
-mike

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