Re: Building Diffutils with MinGW

> Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 11:39:51 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
> CC: [email protected]
> 
> > One possibility is to have a separate header, ms/mingw.h, which
> > src/system.h will include
> 
> Sure, something like that would be fine, though I'd rather
> put the relevant changes into the ms/* subdirectory.
> For example, we could create a file ms/system.h that does
> something like this:
> 
>   #include <mingw.h>
>   #include_next <system.h>
> 
> and then have the Microsoft build compile with -I../ms before
> -I.  Or, if something like that doesn't suffice, we could have the
> Microsoft build patch src/system.h first thing, put the
> patched version into ms/system.h, and then continue building
> with -I../ms.

That's okay, but then the configure script will have to add the
"-I../ms" switch to the GCC command-line arguments.