On 01/17/13 13:27, John W. Eaton wrote: > > Do you expect this to continue to work for older versions of mingw?
No, that hasn't been the practice in the past. I pushed the following to the doc to make it clearer: --- doc/gnulib-intro.texi | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/doc/gnulib-intro.texi b/doc/gnulib-intro.texi index 7b3ff8a..69d6e08 100644 --- a/doc/gnulib-intro.texi +++ b/doc/gnulib-intro.texi @@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ unsupported on mingw: @code{mgetgroups}, @code{getugroups}, @code{idcache}, @code{pt_chown}, @code{grantpt}, @code{pty}, @code{savewd}, @code{mkancesdirs}, @code{mkdir-p}, @code{euidaccess}, @code{faccessat}. The versions of Windows that are supported are Windows XP and newer. +Only the latest version of mingw is tested; older versions are not supported. @item Native Windows, with MSVC as compiler, is rarely tested and low priority. @item -- 1.7.11.7