GetDriveType on gnulib

marco atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 17:16:00 GMT 2012


Hi Eric Blake,

this portion of your gnulib code

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#ifdef __CYGWIN__
#include <windows.h>
#define ME_REMOTE me_remote
/* All cygwin mount points include `:' or start with `//'; so it
    requires a native Windows call to determine remote disks.  */
static int
me_remote (char const *fs_name, char const *fs_type _GL_UNUSED)
{
     if (fs_name[0] && fs_name[1] == ':')
     {
         char drive[4];
         sprintf (drive, "%c:\\", fs_name[0]);
         switch (GetDriveType (drive))
         {
         case DRIVE_REMOVABLE:
         case DRIVE_FIXED:
         case DRIVE_CDROM:
         case DRIVE_RAMDISK:
             return 0;
         }
     }
     return 1;
}
#endif
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has been reused on midnight commander 4.8.x , but on cygwin-1.7.11,
the  #include <windows.h> is causing:

   CC     libmcfilemanager_la-mountlist.lo
In file included from 
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.5.3/../../../../include/w32api/objbase.h:73:0,
                  from 
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.5.3/../../../../include/w32api/ole2.h:9,
                  from 
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.5.3/../../../../include/w32api/windows.h:114,
                  from 
/pub/devel/mc/mc-4.8.1.1-1/src/mc-4.8.1.1/src/filemanager/mountlist.c:217:
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.5.3/../../../../include/w32api/objidl.h:95:3: 
error: expected identifier or '(' before string constant
/pub/devel/mc/mc-4.8.1.1-1/src/mc-4.8.1.1/src/filemanager/mountlist.c:222:53: 
error: expected ';', ',' or ')' before '_GL_UNUSED'
/pub/devel/mc/mc-4.8.1.1-1/src/mc-4.8.1.1/src/filemanager/mountlist.c: 
In function 'read_file_system_list':


idea about the possible culprit ?

Regards
Marco


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