On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You can explicitly include the system header from your compatibility > layer, i.e. > > === compat/mingw/string.h === > > #define __NO_INLINE__ > > #ifdef SYSTEM_STRING_H_HEADER > #include SYSTEM_STRING_H_HEADER > #else > #include_next <string.h> > #endif > > and then in config.mak.uname, do something like this: > > ifneq (,$(findstring MINGW,$(uname_S))) > ifndef SYSTEM_STRING_H_HEADER > SYSTEM_STRING_H_HEADER = "C:\\llvm\include\string.h" > endif > > COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DSYSTEM_STRING_H_HEADER=$(SYSTEM_STRING_H_HEADER) > endif > > People who have the system header file at different paths can > further override SYSTEM_STRING_H_HEADER in their config.mak. > > That would help compilers targetting mingw that do not support > "#include_next" without spreading the damage to other people's > systems, I think. I think this is less favorable compared to my last proposed solution. While my work-around in git-compat-util.h from [1] already is quite ugly, it's at least in a single place. You solution spreads the code it multiple place, making it even more ugly and less comprehensible, IMHO. [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg217546.html -- Sebastian Schuberth -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html