On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Илья Шипицин <chipits...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2017-07-12 18:54 GMT+05:00 Selva Nair <selva.n...@gmail.com>:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 4:46 AM, Илья Шипицин <chipits...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> No interest ?
>>>
>>> 9 июл. 2017 г. 19:46 пользователь "Ilya Shipitsin" <chipits...@gmail.com>
>>> написал:
>>>
>>>> Currently, we do not check for mingw-gcc version. For example,
>>>> Debian 7 is shipped with 4.6.3, which does not know about ENETUNREACH
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> this is for 2.4 and HEAD branches
>>>>
>>>> configure.ac | 14 ++++++++++++++
>>>> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
>>>> index 60bb465..80b26ff 100644
>>>> --- a/configure.ac
>>>> +++ b/configure.ac
>>>> @@ -708,6 +708,20 @@ m4_define(
>>>> [setsockopt getsockopt getsockname poll]dnl
>>>> )
>>>> if test "${WIN32}" = "yes"; then
>>>> +
>>>> +#
>>>> +# check for ENETUNREACH
>>>> +# at least Debian 7 is shipped with gcc-mingw-w64-4.6.3, which is too
>>>> old
>>>
>>>
>> Instead of checking for a particular define why not require a minimal
>> version of gcc ? I do not know what version that would be, though..
>>
>
>
> if you would try to build using ubuntu-14.04, build would fail (I'll
> submit configure patch for that soon as well).
> however, if modified compiler would used https://community.openvpn.net/
> openvpn/wiki/PatchingDebs ... the build will succeed
>
There is no reliable way to support arbitrarily patched build environments.
If I patch mingw in ubuntu 14-04 to have ENETUNREACH defined, the above
check would pass but build may still fail somewhere else.
I still think we should just determine what official version of mingw-gcc
is required and add a test for it.
Selva
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