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Re: Compile ice-9/popen.scm for MinGW
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Compile ice-9/popen.scm for MinGW |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:06:44 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.130009 (Ma Gnus v0.9) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> skribis:
> Once open-process worked for me, I quickly found out that
> modules/ice-9/popen.scm is not being compiled. This is because
> configure.ac explicitly excludes it for systems lacking 'fork':
>
> AM_CONDITIONAL([BUILD_ICE_9_POPEN],
> [test "x$enable_posix" = "xyes" && test "x$ac_cv_func_fork" = "xyes"])
>
> Not sure how best to fix this; perhaps the test should be removed
> altogether (are there any supported systems that cannot support
> popen.scm?).
The test was in response to <http://bugs.gnu.org/13848>, which is a
MinGW issue, so it’s safe to remove it when the fork-less MinGW
replacement that you proposed is committed.
Ludo’.