Re: Building sharutils 4.13.4 with MinGW

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:01:31 -0700
> From: Bruce Korb <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> I've hacked tests/shar-1:

Thanks.

> > Here are the changes:
> 
> I don't have time to digest this part of the patch,
> other than to suggest:
> 
> #if HAVE_WORKING_FORK
> #elif defined(__MINGW32__)
> #else
> #endif

It's up to you, I don't mind either way.  I just didn't want to assume
that the only platform which !HAVE_WORKING_FORK is MinGW.  But if
that's a safe assumption, it's fine with me.

> I also haven't investigated, but I worry about adding the uuencode
> command when HAVE_WORKING_FORK is zero.  It changes the
> printf arguments and I think the uuencode gets added on
> anyhow, so wouldn't it be redundant?  Dunno.  Haven't looked yet.

I'm not sure I'm following.  When you do have time, please tell more.

> Anyway, forcing the pipe when fork doesn't work cancels out the
> --no-piping option, so this definitely needs some massaging.

Right, forgot about that.