Re: [Fwd: Building gettext-0.11.5 bombs under Mingw]

[Paul Eggert]

> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:42:08 +0100 (CET)
> From: Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
> 
> Thanks for reporting this, gettext 0.11.6 will use <sys/utime.h> if it
> cannot find <utime.h>.

It's easy to also support older systems that lack both <utime.h> and
<sys/utime.h>.  gzip does the following, for example.

        #ifdef HAVE_UTIME
        #  ifdef HAVE_UTIME_H
        #    include <utime.h>
        #  else
        #    ifdef HAVE_SYS_UTIME_H
        #      include <sys/utime.h>
        #    else
               struct utimbuf {
                 time_t actime;
                 time_t modtime;
               };
        #    endif
        #  endif
        #endif

Historically, there was a wide variation in utime, but the above code
works on all systems that I know of, including those that expect a
pointer to an array (or to a structure containing an array) instead of
a pointer to a simple structure.