Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/08/28/09:05:55
If you have something, please send it on. I am/have opened
a project on sourceforge (debian-cygwin), and will endeavour
to learn more about sourceforge as well as cygwin as well as
debian in this whole process.
On 28 Aug 2001 13:46:46 +1000, 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.
>
>Rob
>
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