Re: mingw conflict between mkdtemp and sys_stat

[Eric Blake]

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According to Paul Eggert on 10/14/2006 10:46 PM:
> Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Best of all, this patch deletes more than twice as many lines than what it 
>> adds 
>> in new files :)
> 
> I like that part!
> 
> As for mkstemp, there is some desire to keep the sources as close
> to glibc as possible, with the idea of migrating our fixes back.
> So, for example, I'd prefer to avoid changes like this:
> 
>>  int
>> -mkstemp (template)
>> -     char *template;
>> +mkstemp (char *template)
>>  {
> 
> since glibc (for some weird reason that has never been explained to
> me) prefers K&R style for external function definitions.  Also, I
> don't see why __gen_tempname needs to be renamed to gen_tempname.
> Other than that, I don't see a problem for that module.
> 

I'll work at a second pass of this patch to be closer to glibc.  Would it
be okay if I still provide a weak_alias gen_tempname wrapper around
__gen_tempname on glibc systems?  It just looks nicer if we provide gnulib
modules with exported APIs that do not lie in the reserved namespace.

Bruno, is this patch idea acceptable?  Without it, combining the mkstemp
and mkdtemp modules fails to compile on mingw, because mkstemp pulls in
the sys_stat module which provides a conflicting mkdir definition.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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