Re: Compile ice-9/popen.scm for MinGW

[Ludovic Courtès]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> skribis:

> Once open-process worked for me, I quickly found out that
> modules/ice-9/popen.scm is not being compiled.  This is because
> configure.ac explicitly excludes it for systems lacking 'fork':
>
>    AM_CONDITIONAL([BUILD_ICE_9_POPEN],
>      [test "x$enable_posix" = "xyes" && test "x$ac_cv_func_fork" = "xyes"])
>
> Not sure how best to fix this; perhaps the test should be removed
> altogether (are there any supported systems that cannot support
> popen.scm?).

The test was in response to <http://bugs.gnu.org/13848>, which is a
MinGW issue, so it’s safe to remove it when the fork-less MinGW
replacement that you proposed is committed.

Ludo’.