Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:42:53 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: autoconf error with /dev/ptmx Message-ID: <20010720154253.D730@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <200107201332.GAA08218@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200107201332.GAA08218@newsguy.com>; from jjarvie@newsguy.com on Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:32:34AM -0700 On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:32:34AM -0700, jjarvie@newsguy.com wrote: > I've got a strange problem compiling stunnel-3.15 > > configure calls the following checks: > > AC_CHECK_FILE("/dev/ptmx", AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(HAVE_DEV_PTMX)) > AC_CHECK_FILE("/dev/ptc", AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(HAVE_DEV_PTS_AND_PTC)) > > The first check succeeds(!) and the second fails. > > ls -al /dev gives: > > total 0 > srwxrwxrwx 1 Administ None 15 Jun 19 2000 log > crw-rw-rw- 1 Everyone Everyone 19, 0 Jul 20 2001 null > > To fix this all I have to do is delete the HAVE_DEV_PTMX define in Makefile > but I would like to know what is going on. http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/