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Re: problem with unistd.h on mingw systems


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: problem with unistd.h on mingw systems
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:38:29 -0800
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On 01/17/13 13:27, John W. Eaton wrote:
> 
> Do you expect this to continue to work for older versions of mingw?

No, that hasn't been the practice in the past.  I pushed the following
to the doc to make it clearer:

---
 doc/gnulib-intro.texi | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/doc/gnulib-intro.texi b/doc/gnulib-intro.texi
index 7b3ff8a..69d6e08 100644
--- a/doc/gnulib-intro.texi
+++ b/doc/gnulib-intro.texi
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ unsupported on mingw: @code{mgetgroups}, @code{getugroups}, 
@code{idcache},
 @code{pt_chown}, @code{grantpt}, @code{pty}, @code{savewd},
 @code{mkancesdirs}, @code{mkdir-p}, @code{euidaccess}, @code{faccessat}.
 The versions of Windows that are supported are Windows XP and newer.
+Only the latest version of mingw is tested; older versions are not supported.
 @item
 Native Windows, with MSVC as compiler, is rarely tested and low priority.
 @item
-- 
1.7.11.7





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