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Re: [PATCH 2/3] Consistently use BFD's time
>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:
Pedro> I'm not sure about that solution -- won't --avoid=stat mean that
Pedro> we disable any stat gnulib fix for all platforms, instead of just
Pedro> for Windows?
Yeah.
Actually, there is one more option for us, which is to patch gnulib
in-tree. We already have the machinery to do this.
Pedro> So I think we can take advantage of that to be able to make sure that
Pedro> when we include "bfd.h", its functions are declared using the system's
Pedro> stat, which is the same version that bfd is built against.
Pedro> See prototype patch below, particularly common-types.h, which the
Pedro> place where we include bfd.h for the first time.
Pedro> It builds with my mingw cross compiler, the remaining issue would be
Pedro> looking more in detail to the to_sys_stat conversion function.
This looks reasonably promising to me.
Tom