Re: Compile problem with gnulib

[Michael Goffioul]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 5:33 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 10-Jan-2010, Michael Goffioul wrote:
>
> | While trying to compile current octave archive with MSVC, I got
> | problems with gnulib. The first being an inifite #include recursion
> | in dirent.h. There's no dirent.h in MSVC, so the configure script
> | ends up determining that the next include file for dirent.h is simply
> | <dirent.h>. The generated dirent.h then includes itself.
> |
> | What's supposed to happen in such case?
>
> I'm not sure what is intended.  I think we need to ask the gnulib
> maintainers.

Note that given the following reference [1], I'm not
too optimistic about the outcome of this problem.

Michael.


[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2009-04/msg00186.html