Re: lchmod cygwin failure

[Eric Blake]

On 03/25/2010 01:41 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Building in cygwin fails because:
> 
> depbase=`echo test-fcntl-h-c++.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\
>       g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -I../gllib -I./../gllib    
> -MT test-fcntl-h-c++.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o test-fcntl-h-c++.o 
> test-fcntl-h-c++.cc &&\
>       mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
> In file included from ../gllib/fcntl.h:41,
>                  from test-fcntl-h-c++.cc:22:
> ../gllib/sys/stat.h:668: error: ‘lchmod’ was not declared in this scope
> ../gllib/sys/stat.h:668: error: invalid type in declaration before ‘;’ 
> token
> make[3]: *** [test-fcntl-h-c++.o] Error 1
> 
> (Not sure how the broken UTF-8 characters happened..)

What terminal are you using?  It is most likely a case of using a locale
with a UTF-8 charset, but a terminal like rxvt that does not support
multibyte characters (rxvt development has pretty much been abandoned
upstream, but newer urxvt understands UTF-8).

> 
> Any ideas?

Looks like Bruno's patches fix the issue.  Indeed, lchmod is an optional
function - it exists in BSD, but is not standardized.

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