bug#32305: mingw vs do_chown in gzip

2018-07-29 Thread Paul Eggert
Bdale Garbee wrote: I'm (finally) working on updating the gzip in Debian to something newer than 1.6, which caused me to stumble over the addition of the do_chown function in gzip.c. That's because I need to build both native Debian and Windows binary packages, the latter in support of a portio

bug#32305: mingw vs do_chown in gzip

2018-07-29 Thread Bdale Garbee
Paul Eggert writes: > Yes, that must be it. I installed the attached into gzip master on Savannah; > does it fix things for you? 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. The hack I used