Re: [Mingw-users] Re: More patch 2.5.9 hacking

[Earnie Boyd]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > This seems to indicate that some header where you have a prototype of
> > mkdir (which on your system takes 1 argument) was seen by the
> > compiler _after_ config.h, and thus it was processed as the prototype
> > of fixed_mkdir.
>
>
> Yes; the header is <unistd.h>, which apparently includes <io.h>.
>
> Perhaps we can work around the problem on mingw by defining our own
> unistd.h, which looks like this:
>
> #include "/path/to/mingw's/unistd.h"
> #define mkdir(d, m) ((mkdir) (d))
>
> That way, we wouldn't have to modify the existing source code or .m4
> files at all.

Well, I've been contemplating modifying MinGW's unistd.h anyway for 
this.  Seems the right thing to do since unistd.h is a convenience MinGW 
add on for UNIX programs anyway.  Manu, since you started this, do you 
want to do the honors of patching the MinGW unistd.h file?  You should 
use the _mkdir MS version in the body of the definition.

Earnie
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