On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Stefan Weil <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 06.03.2011 15:24, schrieb Roy Tam: >> >> Hi, >> >> 2011/3/6 Herve Poussineau<[email protected]>: >> >> FYI: >> [PATCH 1/3] w32: Add new directory hierarchy for MinGW extensions >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg56858.html >> [PATCH 2/3] w32: Add macro timersub to sys/time.h >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg56859.html >> [PATCH 3/3] osdep: Remove conditional compilation (fixes w32 compilation) >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg56860.html > > Yes, this patch series also addresses the same problem (and one more) > in a better way: it did not add code, but removed a conditional compilation. > (my first try was identical to Herve's patch).
As I replied to those, there are several problems with your approach. Wrapping timersub() would solve the other problem nicely. If we'd want to fake a POSIX-like programming environment, there are other approaches like gnulib. But so far, the approach has been using wrappers.
