Re: canonicalize on mingw

[Paul Eggert]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> mingw doesn't have symlinks, therefore S_ISLNK (defined in stat-macros.h)
> always returns 0. This should avoid the compilation error. canonicalize.m4
> should then also check for readlink().

But the compilation error was about ELOOP, not about whether
readlink() was present.  There's a readlink module that should
handle readlink.

I installed this, which should fix the immediate problem.
Perhaps something like this would work for chdir-safer.c, too?

2006-10-21  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * lib/canonicalize.c (ELOOP): Define if not already defined.
        Problem reported by Bruno Haible in
        <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2006-10/msg00282.html>.

--- lib/canonicalize.c  13 Sep 2006 22:38:14 -0000      1.7
+++ lib/canonicalize.c  22 Oct 2006 07:32:03 -0000
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@
 #include "xalloc.h"
 #include "xgetcwd.h"

+#ifndef ELOOP
+# define ELOOP 0
+#endif
 #ifndef __set_errno
 # define __set_errno(Val) errno = (Val)
 #endif