Re: Building Diffutils with MinGW

[Paul Eggert]

On 05/05/2012 02:12 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I don't understand why should something like that be done by a
> separate script, since the top-level configure already includes
> multiple tests for mingw* configurations.

These are imported from gnulib, which has some maintainers that
worry about mingw*.  It's no extra work to use them,
since they don't affect the diffutils code proper.
 
>    #include <dirent.h>
>    #ifndef _D_EXACT_NAMLEN
>    # define _D_EXACT_NAMLEN(dp) strlen ((dp)->d_name)
>    #endif
>
> is sub-optimal for systems that have the d_namlen member in struct
> dirent, but don't define _D_EXACT_NAMLEN.

Yes, that's right.  The code works correctly on such systems,
and nobody's bothered to implement any such minor tuning.