[tlbuild] Issues with msys2: failed to link with -lgs, _mkdir not declared, ...

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 2 March 2018 at 10:33, Akira Kakuto wrote:
> Dear Mojca,
>
>> zziplib has seen substantial changes yesterday, but its make check
>> fails even on the latest Mac.
>
> Is it related with the following?
>
> (1) topdir/README
> (2) topdir/test/README
> (3) topdir/test/test.zip
>
> In the original sources, (1) and (2) are different.
> README in (3) is the same as (2), but different from (1).

No, that's mostly covered by
    https://github.com/gdraheim/zziplib/pull/35
plus some other weird segfaults like
    https://github.com/gdraheim/zziplib/issues/36
(probably related to ad-hoc replacements for fnmatch.h).

Thanks for pointing out the test.zip though, I din't check that one
because I ran into other issues.

I stumbled across plenty other issues on Mac, some of which the
developer has not even seen before.
(And on MSYS2 I didn't even come far enough to start the python
testing script in the first place.)

It would be great if you could do a bit more testing on MSVC, or if
Ken could run "make check" from upstream zziplib sources on cygwin.
I sincerely hope that we are (or could soon be) ready to get rid of
all patches inside
   https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/libs/zziplib/TLpatches/

Mojca