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Compile failure in module "sysintf.c" on MSW-mingw (i686-pc-mingw32) (for release 4.12.2) #12

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Reported by [email protected], Nov 17, 2012

[What steps will reproduce the problem?]

  1. Set up a cygwin-provisioned MS Windows system
  2. Install the Mingw toolchain
  3. Correctly configure PATH for precedence of Mingw tools
  4. Unpack and configure src kit specified in Summary
  5. Run make to build the project

[What is the expected output? What do you see instead?]
Expected: successful compilation
Observed: see attached scriptfile (build record from terminal) "gnuscript_build_dmake_exe_alone.nonascii.txt"

digest summary of (c compiler error) failure for web searches:
sysintf.c:156:3: error: #error "Utime NULL not supported"
sysintf.c: In function 'Do_touch':
sysintf.c:158: error: expected expression before '}' token

[What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?]
Product version: specified above.
OS: MS Windows "Starter Edition" with MingW toolchain (GCC-4.3) and
cygwin shell environment (NOT cygwin build environment) to provide
standard *nix functionality for a terminal session to build with, a
the basic *nix shell tools such as cp, mkdir, etc.

[Please provide any additional information below.]

Attachments 2 consists of "config.status" created under the build
environment described above.

GNU : Makefile.in generated by automake 1.9.6

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