From: khan@xraylith.wisc.edu (Mumit Khan) Subject: Re: Problems building Octave 2.1.10 with b20 11 Nov 1998 11:21:15 -0800 Message-ID: <9811102244.AA16887.cygnus.gnu-win32@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu> References: <36473288.E68EF70A@ix.netcom.com> To: William D Kirby Cc: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "Eaton, John W." William D Kirby writes: > I have been trying to build GNU Octave development version 2.1.10 using > cygwin b20. When I executed it I get the error message "Fatal: invalid > password object". > > John Eaton sent me the following test program which compiled fine, but > outputted nothing when executed. [ ... code elided ... ] > struct passwd *pw = getpwuid (getuid ()); > > printf ("name: %s\n", pw->pw_name); Are you certain that there is a /etc/passwd file, and if so, it has no cr/lf if the mount is binary? Works for me on a b20 box. Please check for null return just to make sure. > > Then I tried a simpler program than above which produced an error. > > int > main (void) > { > > printf ("hello\n"); > printf ("%s\n",getuid ()); ^^^^ does %d give you the same error? Regards, Mumit - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".