Bdale Garbee wrote:
That fixes the compilation of gzip.c, but of course causes a link
failure since it leaves two calls to function do_chown() that is no
longer defined.
I installed into Savannah master the attached patch, which should be a bit
cleaner. Does it fix things for you?
From 385faa488bd98691cfb82ec4a317c7720a6008ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2018 00:37:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] gzip: port better to mingw again
Problem reported by Bdale Garbee (Bug#32305#8).
* gzip.c (do_chown): Use HAVE_FCHOWN || HAVE_CHOWN,
which is configured, instead of DO_CHOWN, which is not.
---
gzip.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/gzip.c b/gzip.c
index 02d5364..b26dd14 100644
--- a/gzip.c
+++ b/gzip.c
@@ -1923,7 +1923,7 @@ local int check_ofname()
the file and NAME its name. Change it to user UID and to group GID.
If UID or GID is -1, though, do not change the corresponding user
or group. */
-#ifdef NO_CHOWN
+#if ! (HAVE_FCHOWN || HAVE_CHOWN)
/* The types uid_t and gid_t do not exist on mingw, so don't assume them. */
# define do_chown(fd, name, uid, gid) ((void) 0)
#else
--
2.17.1
