Re: windows.h: No such file or directory

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 21 August 2009 16:53:55 John Taylor wrote:
> I'm trying to build coreutils-7.4 with a cross-compilator (gcc-4.4.1)
> that runs on i686-unknown-linux-gnu and produces code for
> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. When building coreutils, I get the following
> error message:
>
> ../../coreutils-7.4/lib/rename.c:33:21: error: windows.h: No such file
> or directory
>
> I found that I can fix this problem by adding
> gl_cv_func_rename_trailing_slash_bug=no to the configure arguments
> list. Is this the normal and recommended way to proceed? Are we in
> front of a bug, instead?

it's a bug in the gnulib rename module.  the failure you mention happens with 
just about every linux cross-compile target (and i doubt it's linux-specific).
-mike

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