From 7c48f122077671b64ff998595d9c1f3ea8ad1852 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nulano <nulano@nulano.eu>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 02:54:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add explanatory comment for USE_WIN32_FILEIO

---
 setup.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4f768d3957d..66bab7ecbe6 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -728,6 +728,10 @@ def build_extensions(self):
             libs.append(feature.tiff)
             defs.append(("HAVE_LIBTIFF", None))
             if sys.platform == "win32":
+                # This define needs to be defined if-and-only-if it was defined
+                # when compiling LibTIFF. LibTIFF doesn't expose it in `tiffconf.h`,
+                # so we have to guess; by default it is defined in all Windows builds.
+                # See #4237, #5243, #5359 for more information.
                 defs.append(("USE_WIN32_FILEIO", None))
         if feature.xcb:
             libs.append(feature.xcb)