On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 10:06, Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:

> Hi Reuben,
>
> > Unfortunately, this doesn't help, because pathconf is not present on
> mingw.
>
> Then use some fallback, e.g. 256 or PATH_MAX.
>
> > So the best I can do is #define _POSIX_ to get the value of NAME_MAX that
> > it has.
>
> Speaking for Gnulib, we cannot support _POSIX_ on mingw. This macro
> modifies
> the behaviour of the header files in 23 places. We already have enough work
> with the various header files origins and modes (from Microsoft, with
> clang,
> from old mingw, from mingw64, UNICODE or not,__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO,
> _USE_32BIT_TIME_T). We do not need yet another variant, _POSIX_.
>

OK, thanks! Maybe Mingw will fix this one day…

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