[GRASS5] mingW: how to exclude win32_pipes.c & user_config.c from compilation?

[Markus Neteler]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 01:28:47AM +0000, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> Markus Neteler wrote:
> 
> > we have to exclude compilation of
> > lib/gis/win32_pipes.c
> > lib/gis/user_config.c
> > 
> > when compiling with mingW.
> 
> Huh? The whole of win32_pipes.c is conditionalised upon
> "#ifdef __MINGW32__", so if that file isn't wanted for MinGW, it
> should just be removed.
> 
> > How to modify the Makefile?
> > Is there a way to define an EXCLUDE variable in this
> > Makefile and make include/Make/Lib.make aware of it?
> > 
> > I know too little about Makefile programming to implement
> > it correctly. Throwing files away may not be the solution.
> 
> The usual approach is to just conditionalise the entire source file
> upon a macro, so that you effectively get an empty file if the test is
> false.

I don't know - this was a request by Radim, I suggested
to him to remove the files. Let's listen to him.

Markus