Re: patches for gettext-0.11.5, and question about __mkdir

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

Happy new year,

>>> "Bruno" == Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

[Amores Perros:]
 >> I did not successfully compile, however, because I have a problem
 >> that the mkdir the compiler is finding only takes on argument.
 >> This is being called from the __mkdir macro in lib/mkdtemp.h.
 >> I don't know if this is something you're willing to work around,
 >> or if you have any suggestions ?

 Bruno> Fix mingw32. Win32 has no mkdir() function, it has only
 Bruno> CreateDirectory.  Therefore if mingw32 offers an mkdir()
 Bruno> function, it must be for POSIX compatibility, I
 Bruno> assume. But POSIX mkdir() takes 2 arguments, pathname
 Bruno> and mode. => mingw32 needs to be fixed.

This is very simple to work around, though.  Here is the macro
I've have been using for a couple of years.  As noted in the
comments at the end there might be room for improvements;
however the default is to use two arguments so it's certainly
not worse than no check at all.
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz

mkdir.m4
Description: AC_FUNC_MKDIR