GNU bug report logs - #32305
mingw vs do_chown in gzip

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Package: gzip;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2018 18:32:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Bdale Garbee <bdale <at> gag.com>
Cc: 32305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32305: mingw vs do_chown in gzip
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2018 11:31:06 -0700

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Bdale Garbee wrote:

> I'm (finally) working on updating the gzip in Debian to something newer
> than 1.6, which caused me to stumble over the addition of the do_chown
> function in gzip.c.  That's because I need to build both native Debian
> and Windows binary packages, the latter in support of a portion of the
> Debian installer system that has something to do with Windows.
> 
> The problem is that mingw doesn't provide uid_t or gid_t definitions,
> perhaps just because there isn't really an equivalent ownership
> construct in Windows?

Yes, that must be it. I installed the attached into gzip master on Savannah; 
does it fix things for you?

[0001-gzip-port-better-to-mingw.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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