Re: dirchownmod and savewd modules uses unavailable functions under Windows

2012-06-07 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/06/2012 04:39 PM, Michael Goffioul wrote: > Hi, > > While compiling octave under MSVC with current gnulib, I got the following > problems (leading undefined references at link stage): > > 1) dirchownmod uses fchown, but this is not available on Windows and > there's no replacement in gnulib

apparent complexity of mkdir-p module (was: Re: dirchownmod and savewd modules uses unavailable functions under) Windows

2012-06-07 Thread John W. Eaton
On 7-Jun-2012, Paul Eggert wrote: | Much of gnulib has never been ported to MSVC / MingW | and apparently octave is using that part. I suggest | using Cygwin. If it were up to me, I'd go a step further and say, "don't use Windows," but the reality is that that's not going to fly with many of Oc

Re: dirchownmod and savewd modules uses unavailable functions under Windows

2012-06-07 Thread Paul Eggert
Much of gnulib has never been ported to MSVC / MingW and apparently octave is using that part. I suggest using Cygwin.

dirchownmod and savewd modules uses unavailable functions under Windows

2012-06-06 Thread Michael Goffioul
Hi, While compiling octave under MSVC with current gnulib, I got the following problems (leading undefined references at link stage): 1) dirchownmod uses fchown, but this is not available on Windows and there's no replacement in gnulib 2) savewd uses waitpid, but it doesn't have a dependency on g