GnuPG incompatible with windows-vista ?

[David Shaw]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:52:11PM -0400, David Shaw wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 05:50:29PM -0600, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote:
> > David Shaw <dshaw at jabberwocky.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:12:58AM -0600, Andrew Berg wrote:
> > >
> > >>>I think that this problem came up before, and that one has to rename
> > >>>gpgkeys_hkp.exe to gpgkeys_curl.exe (or was it the other way around?; I
> > >>can't remember).
> > >
> > >
> > > This will fix HKP, but remove the ability to use HTTP.  Better to
> > > fix the bug here.
> > 
> > I don't know whether that is so much of a bug as a %PATH% problem.
> > Try adding the following to your %PATH% variable:
> 
> I doubt this is a path problem.  gpgkeys_hkp.exe and gpgkeys_curl.exe
> are in the same directory.  If it was a path problem, both wouldn't
> work.
> 
> It's an access() problem.  I'm not sure exactly what I want to do
> about it though.

If anyone is building on Vista (or building elsewhere but using it on
Vista), try this patch.

David
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Index: keyserver.c
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--- keyserver.c	(revision 4459)
+++ keyserver.c	(working copy)
@@ -41,6 +41,14 @@
 #include "keyserver-internal.h"
 #include "util.h"
 
+#ifdef HAVE_W32_SYSTEM
+/* It seems Vista doesn't grok X_OK and so fails access() tests.
+   Previous versions interpreted X_OK as F_OK anyway, so we'll just
+   use F_OK directly. */
+#undef X_OK
+#define X_OK F_OK
+#endif /* HAVE_W32_SYSTEM */
+
 struct keyrec
 {
   KEYDB_SEARCH_DESC desc;