Re: Building Diffutils with MinGW

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.utils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
> Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 09:47:30 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
> CC: [email protected]
> 
> I think those items are meant for downstream porters
> to solve as they see fit.  The 'ms' subdirectory talks
> about how to do this for DJGPP.  Nobody uses it any more
> as far as I know.  Perhaps the 'ms' subdirectory should
> be revamped to talk about MinGW instead.

Thanks.  However, I'd prefer a solution that uses the mainstream
configure script.  Any suggestions in that direction?

One possibility is to have a separate header, ms/mingw.h, which
src/system.h will include when Diffutils are built with MinGW tools.
Would this be acceptable?
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