[PATCH lib/libXpm] Define NO_ZPIPE when building for MinGW

Jon TURNEY jon.turney at dronecode.org.uk
Tue Oct 23 06:07:12 PDT 2012


On 22/10/2012 20:48, Ángel González wrote:
> On 22/10/12 17:07, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>> Define NO_ZPIPE when building for MinGW, decompressing via a pipe isn't possible
>>
>> Signed-off-by:  Jon TURNEY <jon.turney at dronecode.org.uk>
> 
> This seems a bit strong statement. There's no reason for decompression
> via pipe not to work under Windows. You only need to be careful to do
> that using a binary stream, plus xpmPipeThrough needing a windows
> implementation, since it is currently fork()-based.

I shall change the comment from "isn't possible" to "isn't implemented" :-)



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