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bug#32305: mingw vs do_chown in gzip
From: |
Bdale Garbee |
Subject: |
bug#32305: mingw vs do_chown in gzip |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 11:31:50 +0800 |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
> Yes, that must be it. I installed the attached into gzip master on Savannah;
> does it fix things for you?
That fixes the compilation of gzip.c, but of course causes a link
failure since it leaves two calls to function do_chown() that is no
longer defined.
The hack I used to build the Debian gzip 1.9-1 upload I did last night
is to conditionally add two bogus typedefs and elide the function
content if __MINGW32__ is defined. So far, that seems to work ok. My
patch is attached to this email.
It does feel like an "ugly" approach, but I just got confused trying to
unwind how the configure code which learns there are no *chown()
functions in the mingw environment didn't actually cause the right
things to happen in the build. Since apparently I'm the first person to
stumble over this since you added do_chown shortly after the gzip 1.6
release, I doubt it's worth much more time from either of us to come up
with a "cleaner" patch...
Feel free to use some or all of my patch, but I am also happy to update
may packaging for Debian if you choose to put more time in this and
develop a better solution.
Regards,
Bdale
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