[bug-gettext] [bug #42204] gettext-0.18.3.2: weird build anomaly with MinGW

[Bruno Haible]

Update of bug #42204 (project gettext):

                  Status:                    None => Not a Bug              
             Assigned to:                    None => haible                 
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #3:

>  With my mingw32-gcc-4.8.1 cross-compiler, it compiles okay, but with
mingw32-gcc-4.8.2, it fails trying to compile gnulib's closedir.o

This points to a problem in that particular version of mingw.

> error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

If 'DIR' is not defined as a complete type, there must be something wrong in
the mingw header files.

With the build recipe documented in INSTALL.windows (earlier called
README.windows), I haven't seen issues with opendir/closedir on mingw in 4
years.

=> Not a bug in gettext nor gnulib.

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