Re: Fix for 687162, CVS HEAD doesn't compile with Cygwin/gcc

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 04:30:03PM -0500, Alex Cherepanov wrote:

> Improve C99 type support: recignize systems that have inttypes.h and
> deal with Cygwin specially.

Do we know the header called 'inttypes.h' provides the stdint fixed-size typedefs on all systems?

> Cygwin is not yet recognized as a target for jbig2dec inclusion. One can
> easily add platform identification code to configure.ac but it will
> bring in config.guess and some other files. Do we want this now ?

I think it would be better at this point to give in and add support for an autoconf-generated 
header that can supplement or replace what genarch does for that build.

> Re the code freeze, this patch fixes the build process, and won't
> introduce subtle changes. It either breaks everything or significantly
> improves portabilty. The latter seems to be more likely outcome.

I spoke to raph briefly about this on IRC; apparently there was some discussion during the support 
call and he said he would commit a minimal patch based on this. In general I'm in favor of 
comitting something like this for 8.12 and then working on a better fix.

Also, re Igor's comment, I'm told #elif has always been in ANSI C (and fairly well supported) so 
it should be safe given we've dropped K&R support. That should be a separate decision (and clean 
up patch) however.

 -r