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Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:42:53 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: autoconf error with /dev/ptmx
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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 AT newsguy DOT 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.

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Corinna

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