[MPlayer-dev-eng] Cygwin inttypes

[Diego Biurrun]

Diego Biurrun writes:
 > While playing around with Cygwin I came up with an idea for a (better?) 
 > solution for the inttypes.h problem. (On Cygwin it is necessary to put 
 > etc/cygwin_inttypes.h in /usr/include/ as inttypes.h)
 > 
 > I renamed etc/cygwin_inttypes.h to etc/inttypes.h and added the 
 > following lines to configure:
 > 
 > if cygwin ; then
 >    _inc_extra="$_inc_extra -Ietc"
 > fi
 > 
 > Works like a charm without the header file hassle.
 > 
 > However, we already have a file called inttypes.h in etc/.  I have no 
 > idea what it might be for, the first line reads
 > 
 > // fallback if the user doesn't have inttypes.h (libc5 systems)
 > 
 > Are there still libc5 systems left?  Is this file still used?  And for 
 > what purpose?
 > 
 > Comments?
 > 
 > Diego

I just noticed that we also have TOOLS/cygwin_inttypes.h, which is a
duplicate of etc/cygwin_inttypes.h (except for the #if 0 part).  One
of the two should be removed.

Diego