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 Message-ID: <3B8B264C.5030800@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 01:04:12 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010713 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Collins CC: Mark Paulus , cygwin mailing list Subject: Re: problem building program: undef ref _imp__gettext References: <998970409.26907.3.camel@robertlinux> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. don't you need a daemon to handle permissions for fifos to work? Or am I confusing that with something else? --Chuck -- 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/