This was introduced in commit 72b69e00
Reported by BugByteMan here:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2009-November/msg00014.html

Just use the C library instead to create the file. Helps building
using Wine. Not that I think we want to endorse that way to build GTK+
for Windows, proper cross-compiling surely probably more sense, but
accepting this minimal patch doesn't hurt. From bug #590017.
Signed-off-by: Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi>

Tue Feb 24 17:35:59 2004  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>

        * m4macros/gtk-2.0.m4: Add some quotes around ***. (#130073,
        Uwe Zeisberger)

Tue Jan 27 18:45:47 2004  Manish Singh  <yosh@gimp.org>

        * m4macros/gtk-2.0.m4: quote AC_DEFUN macro names so automake
        1.8 won't whine at us.

Mon May  6 12:17:14 2002  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>

        * configure.in: Fix versioning to avoid changing the
        soname!

        [ merge from stable ]

        * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add ChangeLog.pre-2-0 (#78641)

        * m4macros/gtk-2.0.m4: save CFLAGS/LIBS properly when
        compiling "what went wrong" test case. (#79329)

        * m4macros/gtk-2.0.m4: Remove reference to editing
        pkg-config script. (From Jim Gettys)

Tue Mar  5 15:47:54 2002  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>

        * configure.in test/makefile.msc **.pc.in **/*.am:
	Update version to 2.0.0

        * gtk/Makefile.am (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Add stamp
        files.

        * configure.in (GDK_PIXBUF_VERSION): Require GLib 2.0.0,
        Pango, Atk, 1.0.0.

        * m4macros/gtk-2.0.m4: Default to 2.0.0 as the minimum
        version.

2002-03-03  Sven Neumann  <sven@gimp.org>

	* m4macros/gtk-2.0.m4: lowercase configure --help output.

Mon Oct 29 11:31:40 2001  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>

	* m4macros/gtk-2.0.m4: Don't try to use pkg-config
	when we didn't find it. (#62944, Eric Lemings)

	* m4macros/gtk-2.0.m4: Fix problem with spaces around =
	sign in assignment. (#63209, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz)

2001-06-07  Havoc Pennington  <hp@redhat.com>

	* m4macros/glib-2.0.m4: subst GLIB_GENMARSHAL, GOBJECT_QUERY,
	GLIB_MKENUMS variables

	* gmodule-2.0.pc.in: add gmodule_supported variable

	* glib-2.0.pc.in: add glib_genmarshal, gobject_query,
	glib_mkenums variables

	* configure.in: put G_MODULE_SUPPORTED value into
	.pc files

	* autogen.sh: support AUTOGEN_SUBDIR_MODE

	* Makefile.am: add -uninstalled.pc.in to EXTRA_DIST

2001-06-07  Havoc Pennington  <hp@redhat.com>

	* pango/Makefile.am: add libpango.la to _DEPENDENCIES for the
	other libs

	* configure.in: use AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0

	* autogen.sh: support AUTOGEN_SUBDIR_MODE

	* Makefile.am: dist the .pc.in files

2001-06-07  Havoc Pennington  <hp@redhat.com>

	* atk/Makefile.am: use @GLIB_GENMARSHAL@ so we can use uninstalled
	glib-genmarshal

	* configure.in: rearrange the library checks to support
	uninstalled linking

	* autogen.sh: add support for AUTOGEN_SUBDIR_MODE

	* atk-uninstalled.pc.in: new file, allows linking to uninstalled
	ATK in giant GTK tarball

2001-06-07  Havoc Pennington  <hp@redhat.com>

	* tests/Makefile.am: add missing -I flag

	* gtk/Makefile.am: use @GLIB_MKENUMS@, @GLIB_GENMARSHAL@, etc.

	* configure.in: use pkg-config to see if GModule is
	supported; fix to properly turn on included loaders
	when GModule isn't supported; don't use AC_CHECK_LIB
	when libs are not installed yet

	* autogen.sh: add support for AUTOGEN_SUBDIR_MODE

	* Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): add m4macros subdir

	* gtk/Makefile.am: $(srcdir)/foo targets must be $(srcdir)/foo in
	dependencies also.

Thu Apr 12 17:41:17 2001  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>

        * gtk-2.0.m4: Fix up to refer to GTK+, not to GLib; fix some
        wording problems. (Compared to version from Johannes Stezenbach to
        check correctness.)

2001-04-11  Alexander Larsson  <alexl@redhat.com>

	* gtk-2.0.m4: Pass pkg-config options
	before the other args so it works even if
	POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.

Tue Apr  3 13:55:37 2001  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>

	* NEWS: Updated.

	* configure.in: Remove support for uninstalled glib.

	* gtk/gtkdnd.c (gtk_drag_highlight_expose): Return FALSE as
	so as not to stop emission.

	* gtk-config-2.0.in: Exit with an error message that gtk-config-2.0
	is no longer supported.

	* Makefile.am gtk/Makefile.am tests/*: Moved all tests
	into tests, change build order to build modules before
	gtk/.

	* modules/input/Makefile.am: Move gtk-query-immodules-2.0 invocation
	to here.

Fri Jul 14 20:30:25 2000  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>

        * Really release 1.3.1

	* gtk-config-2.0.in gtk-2.0.m4: Fix up to correspond to new
	include structure.

Fri Jul 14 12:22:49 2000  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>

	* configure.in Makefile.am gtk-config.m4 gtk.m4: Move
	gtk-config to gtk-config-2.0 move gtk_.m4 to
	gtk-2.0.m4

	* Makefile.am gtk/Makefile.am gdk-pixbuf/Makefile.am
	gdk/Makefile.am demos/Makefile.am: Change
	library names to libgtk-1.3.la, etc, so that we
	can distinguish gtk-1.2 and gtk-2.0 on the linkline.

	* Makefile.am gtk/Makefile.am gdk-pixbuf/Makefile.am
	gdk/Makefile.am gdk/x11/Makfile.am
	Move include files into /usr/include/gtk-2.0,
	/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include/

	* autogen.sh acconfig.h configure.in gtk/gtkmain.c
	gtk/gtkintl.h: Change package for gettext from
	gtk+ to gtk20. Put hack in autogen.sh to modify
	po/Makefile.in.in after gettextize to make this
	possible.

	* gtk+.spec: Some updates, not tested.

	* gdk-pixbuf/Makefile.am: Move loaders into
	$(libdir)/gtk-2.0/$(GTK_VERSION)/loaders.

	* gtk/Makefile.am gtk/gtkrc.c: Move RC file locations
	$(sysconfdir)/gtk-2.0 ~/.gtkrc-2.0; theme subdir
	to THEMENAME/gtk-2.0/. Move engine directory  to
	$(libdir)/gtk-2.0/$(GTK_VERSION)/engines.

Wed May 10 20:25:04 2000  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>

	* gtk.m4: Print out version when test succeeds.

Thu Feb 18 11:46:57 1999  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>

	* gtk.m4: Fix glib_config_args gtk_config_args
	  confusion. (pointed out by
	  Roland Dreier <droland@mail.math.okstate.edu>)

	* gtk/gtksocket.c gtk/gtkmain.c gtk/gtkdebug.h
	  (gtk_socket_filter_func): Move the plug-socket
	  debugging code to a new "plugsocket" debug keys
	  from the previous hardcoded DPRINTF.

Mon Feb  1 16:47:55 1999  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>

	* gtk.m4: Pass gthread on to gtk-config.

	* configure.in gtk-config.in: Support gthread flag to
	  add thread cflags/libraries into the output of
	  gtk-config.

gtk.m4:
	When testing to see if glib exists, set
	        LIBS="$GTK_LIBS $LIBS"
	NOT
	        LIBS="$LIBS $GTK_LIBS"
	because order matters - if the user specifies their own $LIBS to
	./configure, these need to be passed in last.

gtk/Makefile.am:
	Fix problems with gtktypebuiltins* getting rebuilt every single
	time 'make' was run.

gtk/gtkcalendar.c:
	Set 'week' variable to 0 to get rid of uninitialized
	variable warning. Better solution is to give it the right value
	somewhere :)

gtk/gtkclist.c:
	When computing optimum column size, don't subtract the borders.(?)

gtk/gtkcolorsel.c:
	Don't read past end of array.

	* gtkfilesel.c: Maintain a list of directories like
	/afs we know contain only directories, and avoid
	stat'ing files in those directories. (Because
	stat'ing all files in /afs is extremely expensive)

	To support automounters, try to open directories,
	even if we couldn't find them when reading their
	parent directory.

Wed Jun 10 19:36:35 1998  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@gtk.org>

	* glib/* Moved to glib module

	* INSTALL Makefile.am acconfig.h autogen.sh configure.in
	  gtk-config.in gtk.m4 gdk/Makefile.am gtk/Makefile.am

	  configuration changes for the above:

	  - Use AM_PATH_GLIB by default to find glib; also accept
	    a --with-glib option for using an uninstalled glib.

	  - Put --enable-debug information into config.h so
	    that we rebuild when it changes. (was in glibconfig.h)

Fri Apr  3 18:33:47 1998  Owen Taylor  <owt1@cornell.edu>

	* gtk-config.in: Added flags --prefix[=dir] and
	--exec-prefix[=DIR] which allow querying and overriding the
	configured-in prefix and exec-prefix.

	* gtk.m4: Added configure flags --with-gtk-prefix=
	and --with-gtk-exec-prefix= to set the --prefix and
	--exec-prefix argumetns to gtk.m4

Mon Mar 16 01:33:36 1998  Owen Taylor  <owt1@cornell.edu>

	* gtk-config.in: Added trailing newline, hopefully will
	  fix the problem with esac disappearing.

	* gtk/Makefile.am (test-debug): Improved test targets
	  will work with --enable-shared
    	    [From:  Raja R Harinath  <harinath@cs.umn.edu>]

  	* gtk.m4: Not all shells understand $(...).  Use `...` instead.
    	    [From:  Raja R Harinath  <harinath@cs.umn.edu>]
	- use AM_PATH_PROG instead of AM_CHECK_PROG, so the user
	  can specify programs not in their path.

	* Makefile.am: added gtk.m4 to EXTRA_DIST

Sat Mar 14 19:36:16 PST 1998 Shawn T. Amundson <amundson@gimp.org>

        * Released 0.99.7

Sat Mar 14 20:07:45 1998  Owen Taylor  <owt1@cornell.edu>

	* gtk.m4: Fixed reversed conditional, so checks against
	  supplied version.

-Yosh

Thu Mar 12 18:01:03 1998  Owen Taylor  <owt1@cornell.edu>

	* gtk.m4 gtk-config.in Makefile.am configure.in:
	  Added a new mechanism for GTK-dependent programs to
	  find out about the installed GTK. (Does not remove
	  any current functionality)

	* gtk+-xconfig.in: Was no longer used for anything.