Re: w32 build fails with mingw runtime 3.6

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 07:50:41 -0500
> From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Alejandro_L=F3pez-Valencia?= <address@hidden>
> 
> Mingw Runtime 3.6 provides definitions for S_ISLNK, _S_ISLNK, S_IFLNK,
> _S_IFLNK and _lstat. Most of these definitions are non-functional, and
> break fileio.c.

How does the MinGW runtime define these macros and _lstat, what
exactly is non-functional about them, and why did they introduce those
definitions?  Surely they didn't want to provide a non-functional
symlink support, did they?

I'm asking these questions because the answers might suggest what
would be the best way of dealing with these new misfeatures.

TIA