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

[Earnie Boyd]

Manu wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> [...]
>
> > I didn't mean to patch the library, I meant to write a substitute for
> > it.  For example, you write a function called fixed_mkdir that does
> > the right thing with the second argument, then say
> >
> >  #define mkdir fixed_mkdir
> >
> > in some header included by all the sources except the one that
> > defines fixed_mkdir's code.
>
>
> I'm missing something or this doesn't work:
>
> I experimentally added "#define mkdir fixed_mkdir" in config.h.
> Then:
> util.c: In function `makedirs':
> util.c:885: too many arguments to function `fixed_mkdir'
> make: *** [util.o] Error 1
>
> If I change it to:
> "#define mkdir(name, mode) ((fixed_mkdir) (name, mode))",
> Then:
> gcc -c  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Ded_PROGRAM=\"ed\" -I. -I. -g -O2 addext.c
> In file included from C:/DEV/MSYS/1.0/mingw/include/unistd.h:9,
>                  from addext.c:49:
> C:/DEV/MSYS/1.0/mingw/include/io.h:145:39: macro "mkdir" requires 2 arguments, 
> but only 1 given
> make: *** [addext.o] Error 1
>
> Same problem if I move it to common.h.

You've defined mkdir before you included the io.h header.  You could try 
setting _NO_OLDNAMES to avoid it, but that would most likely cause you 
other unwanted results.  Your best bet is to create the mkdir definition 
after you've included unistd.h.

Earnie
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