Re: MS-Windows build using Posix configury

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 00:16:29 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> On 05/15/2013 11:56 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Do you also feel that some minor change
> > in qset-acl.c, to cause the compilation fall back on chmod_or_fchmod,
> > is not justified?  That would allow to compile that file.
> 
> If I understand you correctly, there's no need to compile the file,
> as its function is never called.  So I'd just omit it from
> nt/gnulib.mk; that's simpler.

Thanks, will do.

> >   ## begin gnulib module qacl
> > 
> >   libgnu_a_SOURCES += acl-errno-valid.c file-has-acl.c qcopy-acl.c
> > 
> >   EXTRA_DIST += acl-internal.h acl.h acl_entries.c
> > 
> >   EXTRA_libgnu_a_SOURCES += acl_entries.c
> 
> There's a call AC_REPLACE_FUNCS([acl_entries]) in gl_FUNC_ACL,
> which means the autoconf machinery decides whether to compile
> acl_entries.c based on whether the system already has an acl_entries.
> The functions acl_errno_valid, file_has_acl, and qcopy_acl are
> not like that: they're meant to be compiled no matter what,
> so one can simply tell Automake about them directly, using
> libgnu_a_SOURCES.

Got it.  Thanks again.