perl-5.6.1 DB_file support

[Earnie Boyd]

Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:
> 
> > Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:
> > > MAX_PATH OTOH seems to be an MS Windows invention and is not in any
> > > standard, or is it?
> 
> Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com> writes:
> > Well, it is a MS Windows standard.
> 
> Than it should be in the MS Windows headers (which it is, I suppose. I
> haven't MingW installed currently to check).  No problem with that.
> Microsoft's Platform SDK has MAX_PATH in <windef.h> which seems
> sensible.
> 

Yes indeed they are.

> > And if _WIN32 is defined shouldn't I expect to find a Win32 standard
> > definition such as MAX_PATH and _MAX_PATH defined?  Even Cygwin
> > itself uses MAX_PATH, E.G.: /usr/include/sys/cygwin.h.
> 
> The code in question is covered by an "#ifdef WINVER" so it's only
> included for programs that have included <windows.h> or <windef.h>
> before <cygwin.h>.

So, it appears the correct fix is to modify the code to
s/_MAX_PATH/MAX_PATH/.  Or perhaps

  #ifdef MAX_PATH
  # ifndef _MAX_PATH
  #  define _MAX_PATH MAX_PATH
  # endif
  #endif

Cheers,
Earnie.

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