Bruno Haible writes:
> Removing the mingw* case in the 'case' statement is wrong, because the * case
> executes an AC_CACHE_CHECK which would yield 'no' when cross-compiling to
> mingw
> or natively compiling to mingw via wine but yield 'yes' when natively
> compiling
> to mingw via Cygwin. In
Paolo Bonzini writes:
> On 01/09/2010 12:33 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
>> Hmm, you and Paolo explained to me on 2009-08-21 that Wine should be
>> considered as a platform of its own. But I still don't fully agree. Can
>> you first report the bug to the Wine people and come back to patching
>> gnulib
Bruno Haible writes:
>> The relevant code is:
>>
>> /* Cannot create directory. */
>> errno = 0;
>> ASSERT (func ("nonexist.ent/", O_CREAT | O_RDONLY, 0600) == -1);
>>
>> Open returns 3 for me, and it has created a file 'nonexist.ent'.
>
> This must be a bug in Wine, then. Please report
On 01/09/2010 12:33 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
Hmm, you and Paolo explained to me on 2009-08-21 that Wine should be
considered as a platform of its own. But I still don't fully agree. Can
you first report the bug to the Wine people and come back to patching
gnulib only if they are not fixing it with
Simon Josefsson wrote:
> diff --git a/m4/open.m4 b/m4/open.m4
> index d705b3a..bc04613 100644
> --- a/m4/open.m4
> +++ b/m4/open.m4
> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_OPEN],
> [
>AC_REQUIRE([AC_CANONICAL_HOST])
>case "$host_os" in
> -mingw* | pw*)
> +pw*)
>gl_REPLACE_OPEN
Hi Simon,
Simon Josefsson wrote:
> I got this when cross-compiling to MinGW with Wine:
>
> test-open.h:34: assertion failed
> FAIL: test-open.exe
Whereas on a real Windows XP SP3, I get:
skipping test: symlinks not supported on this file system
SKIP: test-open.exe
(which is a bit misleadin
This problem was also caused by Wine, and not visible under Windows XP.
See http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21292
My old patch fixes the problem under Wine, but this updated patch adds a
comment explaining.
Ok to push?
/Simon
diff --git a/m4/open.m4 b/m4/open.m4
index d705b3a..bc04613 10
