Re: fprintf & mingw [Re: attn:win32 users ]

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

> * Michael Kappert <zvp...@tz...g> [2008-01-27 22:18:42 +0100]:
>
> Sam Steingold wrote:
>>> * Michael Kappert <zvp...@tz...g> [2008-01-25 22:03:32 +0100]:
>>>
>>> Sam Steingold wrote:
>>>> Michael Kappert wrote:
>>>> | clisp still refuses to print line number in the error message. Sorry.
>>>> | Suggestions are welcome.
>
>> this is weird.
>> if you look at lispbibl.d, you see that when DEBUG_OS_ERROR is defined,
>> OS_error is defined as a macro.
>> could you please investigate what prevents that macro from being
>> defined?
>
> Hmm... pathname.i has the fprintf statements from the macro. Indeed
> under the cygwin shell line numbers are printed. Under the mingw shell,
> only the WIN32 error is printed. Replacing stderr with stdout doesn't
> change anything. I've no idea what might be causing this.

interesting.
maybe it is worth investigating  upto the point of filing a mingw bug report...

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