On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 10:04:02 +0100, Kai Tietz wrote:
> Why not using here instead an implementation using FTW-API?

Done.


> At least mingw-w64 added this API recently to runtime for gcc's sake, so
> implementation of an 'rm -rf' should be pretty easy.

It has built on Fedora 21 x86_64 mingw64 for both 32-bit and 64-bit targets.
I am not sure about various other Unices but if the patch gets approved...


On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 18:29:51 +0100, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> /scratch/sellcey/repos/nightly2/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/compile/compile.c:175:10: error: ignoring return value of 'system', declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Werror=unused-result]
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> make[1]: *** [compile.o] Error 1

It should get fixed by this patch.


I have briefly tested (on Linux; on MinGW I have only tested the build) it
really does delete the directory and its files.

OK for check-in?


Thanks,
Jan