RE: Bug report: Compile with Microsoft and Intel compiler

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Jerker Bäck <address@hidden> writes:

  jb> ??? You mean to make an empty "dummy" unistd.h for Windows
  jb> machines in w32/include or create a custom windows unistd.h? Your
  jb> great suggestion of using "HAVE_STDLIB" instead of all these #if
  jb> defined(...) is enough, I think, at least for the MS
  jb> compiler.

For the MS compiler maybe.  But that's not the model that GNU autoconf
uses.  They don't test for platforms, they test for individual
features.  In the UNIX world it's quite possible to have a system where
getenv() is there, but not strerror(), etc. so a single #define for
"STDLIB" is not expressive enough.

I don't understand why we can't just update the config.h.W32 file to
contain the proper #defines for Windows, if they are all essentially
static and don't need to be checked.


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