Re: [patch] compile: rm -rf -> ftw()+rmdir()+unlink() [Re: [patch] compile: Fix MinGW build]

Pedro Alves
2014-12-18T18:24:14Z

On 12/18/2014 06:14 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 23:41:53 +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> See https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/ftw.html:
>>
>> "This function is missing on some platforms: Mac OS X 10.3, FreeBSD 5.2.1,
>> NetBSD 3.0, Minix 3.1.8, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS. "
>
> This list does not say much and it is even obsolete, at least "mingw" supports
> ftw(); although Eli disagrees in:
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-12/msg00540.html

What you miss is that mingw and mingw-w64 are different projects,
lead by different people.

>
> On MacOS X GDB does not work anyway,

Huh?

> Message-ID: <20140817211647.GA17152@host2.jankratochvil.net>
> On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 23:16:47 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> # This is one of the general problems of GDB that one cannot do any change
> # affecting platforms which one cannot (or at least not easily enough) test on.

Sergio has been working hard on a setting up a buildbot. But you know that ...

Thanks,
Pedro Alves