Re: [Bug-tar] need to build a Windows tar

[Steven Penny]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 Mike Maki wrote:
> Where it builds in cygwin but won't run in DOS, the problem now is configure 
> succeeds but make fails in MSYS/MinGW.
>
> rtapelib.c: In function `do_command':
> rtapelib.c:124: error: `SIGPIPE' undeclared (first use in this function)
> rtapelib.c:124: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> rtapelib.c:124: error: for each function it appears in.)
> rtapelib.c: In function `rmt_open__':
> rtapelib.c:468: warning: implicit declaration of function `pipe'
> rtapelib.c:477: warning: implicit declaration of function `fork'
> rtapelib.c:500: warning: implicit declaration of function `setuid'
> rtapelib.c:500: warning: implicit declaration of function `getuid'
> rtapelib.c:500: warning: implicit declaration of function `setgid'
> rtapelib.c:500: warning: implicit declaration of function `getgid'
> rtapelib.c: In function `rmt_write__':
> rtapelib.c:602: error: `SIGPIPE' undeclared (first use in this function)

These errors persist after 2 years? Is there no way to build tar for
Windows using MinGW?