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Robert Collins wrote: > On 27 Aug 2001 14:51:05 -0600, Mark Paulus wrote: > >>Ok, I am guilty as charged of the "minimilistic" information. >>I am trying to build the debian dpkg source package, in an >>effort to start a debian-cygwin project. dpkg does use >>autoconf, and as such, I ran it in it's default state. I will >>try re-running it with the pointers you gave me, and then >>see about what it takes to get it to build OOB. >> > > dpkg requires fifo's last I looked at it. > > You need to create proper fifos for cygwin _before_ worrying about the > package per se. > > I'm happy to send a patch for cygwin that has partially functioning > fifos, but it's quite bitrotted now, and had problems with fork when I > last looked at it. don't you need a daemon to handle permissions for fifos to work? Or am I confusing that with something else? --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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