[PATCH setup] Add new option '--compact-os'

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Sun Jul 18 13:44:32 GMT 2021


On 14/05/2021 08:55, Christian Franke wrote:
> Christian Franke wrote:
>> Jon Turney wrote:
>>> On 12/05/2021 18:50, Christian Franke wrote:
>>>> Jon Turney wrote:
>>>>> On 08/05/2021 21:03, Christian Franke wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> +#include "compactos.h"
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +#ifndef FSCTL_SET_EXTERNAL_BACKING
>>>>>
>>>>> There should be a comment here saying "not yet provided by w32api" 
>>>>> or similar.
>>>>
>>>> ... or we wait for a release of w32api headers with the patch 
>>>> mentioned above :-)
>>>
>>> No, I think this way is better, since I build the setup releases on 
>>> Fedora, and so don't have any control about when the w32api package 
>>> I'm building against gets updated
>>>
>>> (and furthermore it's an old Fedora at the moment, since the x86 
>>> MinGW toolchain in recent Fedora isn't built with SJLJ exception 
>>> handling...)
>>>
>>
>> I see. BTW: Mingw-w64 upstream pushed my patch yesterday.
>>
>> Attached is a new patch for setup which also allows to select the 
>> compression algorithm.
>>
> 
> Sorry - I missed a possible segfault in the check for cygwin1.dll.
> 
> Fixed version attached.

Sorry, I'd thought this was in the "waiting for an updated version of 
the patch" state, but you'd done that.

Now applied. Thanks.


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