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From: | Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: | Re: <dirent> functions under MinGW |
Date: | Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:20:17 -0600 (CST) |
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> Which means that unsuspecting programs built under MSYS > (e.g. libltdl) may end up being GPLed by accident when it was > assumed that only GPL-free MINGW headers/libraries were used. That is then a very wrong assumption. To build *for* MSYS, I assume you have downloaded the MSYS sources and use the headers from there? There certainy is no dirent.h in the MSYS package that people who just *use* MSYS install. The dirent.h provided with mingw, on the other hand, is the public-domain one, and the dirent implementation that programs built using mingw (and MSYS) use is the public-domain one. (Unless you have seriously mixed up things yourself and copied stuff here and there.)
My MSYS/MINGW install has both /usr/include/dirent.h and /mingw/include/dirent.h. The problem header is /usr/include/dirent.h. Looking at the generated dependency files for my libltdl build, I see that /mingw/include/dirent.h is being used.
I was drawn into this issue due to a compilation error message (for a different software package) which seemed to indicate that /usr/include/dirent.h was being used.
Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn address@hidden, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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