Re: w32 build fails with mingw runtime 3.6

[Oscar Fuentes]

Alejandro López-Valencia <address@hidden> writes:

> On 13/01/2005 03:32 p.m., Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>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
>> 
>
> That's information that you may have more luck in extracting from them
> than I ever would.

This topic is being discussed right now. This is a post from one of
the top maintainers suggesting to remove the defines and the function:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6342623&forum_id=5119

> My past interactions have been less than contructive.

I see no trace from you on the mingw-users mailing list.

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-- 
Oscar