Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/12/16/19:45:18
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
>
> > After I reinstalled Cygwin there is the following linker error in build
> > some applications:
> >
> > ------------------------------------------
> >
> > g77 ... foo.F .... -lcygipc
> >
> > /bin///ld: cannot find -lcygipc
> > ...
> > ------------------------------------------
> >
> > The cygipc package has not been reinstalled, it, now, belongs to obsolte
> > section.
> >
> > Should I reinstall it or is sufficient to delete '-lcygipc' from the
> > build command?
>
> Actually, cygipc *is* installed, but the new version is empty (as are all
> obsolete packages), so reinstalling it won't help unless you go for the
> old version.
>
> That said, IIRC, the cygipc functionality is superseded by the Cygwin DLL
> itself, so deleting -lcygipc should work. However, now instead of
> starting the cygipc service, you need to add and start the cygserver
> service. I'm sure there's an entry about this in the FAQ or the User's
> Guide somewhere -- if not, you can read the cygserver README.
> Igor
>
For the moment deleting -lcygipc seems to work.
Cheers,
angelo.
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