bug#61782: closed (About some warning building Emacs master on MSYS2/MINGW64 [autogen, configure])

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> About some warning building Emacs master on MSYS2/MINGW64 [autogen, configure]
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> Sat, 25 Feb 2023 09:45:56 +0100 (CET)
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> I noticed that building Emacs (master) on Windows with MSYS2/MINGW64 now shows 
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> $ ./autogen.sh
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> Running 'autoreconf -fi -I m4' ...
> ac-wrapper: autoreconf: warning: auto-detected versions not found ( ); falling 
> back to latest available
> You can now run './configure'.
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> ./configure
> [...]
> checking for xattr library with ATTR_ACTION_PERMISSIONS... no
> configure: WARNING: libattr development library was not found or not usable.
> configure: WARNING: GNU Emacs will be built without xattr support.
> checking whether readlink signature is correct... yes
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> I wonder if they are to be expected and if we can do something to avoid them.
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> Thanks,
>  Angelo.
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> Re: bug#61782: About some warning building Emacs master on MSYS2/MINGW64 [autogen, configure]
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> Sun, 26 Feb 2023 08:56:38 +0200
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> > Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 15:38:38 -0800
> > Cc: 61782@debbugs.gnu.org
> > From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
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> > On 2023-02-25 01:49, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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> > > The second one is due to m4/xattr.m4.  Paul, this test should not be
> > > run on MS-Windows (although running it is mostly harmless), as xattr
> > > will not be supported there.
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> > Perhaps something like the attached untested patch? Please feel free to 
> > install it if it works.
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> Thanks, installed.
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