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Re: [patch] compile: rm -rf -> ftw()+rmdir()+unlink() [Re: [patch] compile: Fix MinGW build]
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Kai Tietz <ktietz at redhat dot com>, Steve Ellcey <sellcey at imgtec dot com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, brobecker at adacore dot com, yao at codesourcery dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 18:23:55 +0000
- Subject: Re: [patch] compile: rm -rf -> ftw()+rmdir()+unlink() [Re: [patch] compile: Fix MinGW build]
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- References: <20141217210144 dot GA26674 at host2 dot jankratochvil dot net> <549206B1 dot 40902 at redhat dot com> <20141218181432 dot GA19996 at host2 dot jankratochvil dot net>
On 12/18/2014 06:14 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 23:41:53 +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> See https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/ftw.html:
>>
>> "This function is missing on some platforms: Mac OS X 10.3, FreeBSD 5.2.1,
>> NetBSD 3.0, Minix 3.1.8, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS. "
>
> This list does not say much and it is even obsolete, at least "mingw" supports
> ftw(); although Eli disagrees in:
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-12/msg00540.html
What you miss is that mingw and mingw-w64 are different projects,
lead by different people.
>
> On MacOS X GDB does not work anyway,
Huh?
> Message-ID: <20140817211647.GA17152@host2.jankratochvil.net>
> On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 23:16:47 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> # This is one of the general problems of GDB that one cannot do any change
> # affecting platforms which one cannot (or at least not easily enough) test on.
Sergio has been working hard on a setting up a buildbot. But you know that ...
Thanks,
Pedro Alves