Re: gEDA-dev: New MinGW patches for gEDA/gaf

[Cesar Strauss <cestrauss-at-NOSPAMgmail_dot_com>]

Peter TB Brett wrote:
> On Friday 16 November 2007 21:01:47 Cesar Strauss wrote:
>> * MinGW does not have sys/wait.h.
>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=818428&aid=1833122&group_
>> id=161080
>>
>>
>> Minor cosmetic issue. I also suggested that the missing macros could be
>> defined in global.h, instead of commenting out code.
> 
> That assumes that Windows actually does something sensible with the return 
> value, which is by no means a given...?
> 

It does pass the return value to the parent, else makefiles would never 
fail...

However, I think there is a problem with the Windows port of 
g_spawn_command_line_sync from GLIB. I just checked, and the exit_status 
is always 0, even for a program wired to return 1. On Cygwin, it works fine.

Cesar



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