Re: Problem compiling Readline 7.0 with MinGW

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/19/19 9:56 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As part of building the GDB 9.0.90 pretest with mingw.org's MinGW on
> MS-Windows, I've built the copy of Readline 7.0 which is part of the
> GDB distribution, and found a compilation problem:
        [...]
> These problems happen because readline/posixstat.h uses preprocessor
> macros like S_IWOTH and S_IXOTH, which are not defined on MinGW
> headers.  The posixstat.h file assumes that if S_IRXWU is defined, so
> are the rest of the macros, but MinGW defines only the "user" mode
> bits and leaves the "group" and "other" bits undefined.  I propose
> below a patch that fixes that.

Thanks for the report and patch.

Chet

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