X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4E76349B.2040009@cs.umass.edu> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:12:43 -0400 From: Eliot Moss Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110902 Thunderbird/6.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Dealing with Symlinks References: <32489424.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <32489424.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 9/18/2011 9:28 AM, tedthetool wrote: > I am trying to compile openssl. When I run make and make test, I get trivial > compile errors. See, > > error: expected identifier or '(' before '!' token > error: stray '\377' in program > error: stray '\376' in program > > My friends tells me that this is because cygwin doesn't deal with the > symlinks present in C header files. How do I remedy this? In my experience this won't happen if you are using tools built to run in the cygwin environment (if that is indeed the problem). So, which C compiler are you running? Best wishes -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple