Build faliing on Windows

[Ian Lynagh]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 08:34:41PM +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> 
> However, if success on mode_t is required (which it is) for Windows, shouldn't we get an error from configure, rather than ploughing on and only bleating later when some obscure file doesn't compile?

There are a lot of instances of that sort of thing in packages like base
and unix. They'd really benefit from someone doing a sweep over them.


Thanks
Ian