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 X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer goliath.siemens.de) From: "Andrej Borsenkow" To: , Subject: RE: autoconf error with /dev/ptmx Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:49:27 +0400 Message-ID: <001b01c11122$caf998c0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <013d01c11121$24cd1ea0$806410ac@local> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2479.0006 > > > 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. > > That's because cygwin has a virtual /dev/ptmx and no /dev/ptc. You are > getting the correct results. > Yes, the check breaks on cygwin. May be, replacing it with AC_TRY_RUN a pogram that contains open("/dev/ptmx", O_RDWR) would be a better idea (and it will have the same implication on cross compiling). > > 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 > Somebody has created them but cygwin does not use these files. -andrej -- 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/