[Zope-Coders] Zope HEAD doesn't compile on Windows

[Chris Withers]

Toby Dickenson wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 27 March 2002 8:27 am, Chris Withers wrote:
> 
> >> initgroups is a useless concept on Windows, so all that's needed is to
> >> somehow conditionally remove it from Setup20 if not on a UNIXy platform.
> 
> Doing conditional stuff is easier in code, and harder as part of a build
> process.
> 
> I think it would be easier to change initgroups.c such that it will at least
> compile on every platform. Im not exactly sure how this function is
> used.... either omit the function, or make is do nothing, on the platforms
> where it can not be fully implemented.

To be honest, a preprocessor directive in that file might do it, one which just
dumps a blank stub if it's being compiled on Windows...

cheers,

Chris