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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: "-" <jagginess AT yahoo DOT ca>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: configure panic with confdefs.h error results
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:03:31 -0000
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- wrote:
> ./configure displays up to a point where it
> says it cannot create an executable...i look into
> config.log to get...( i hope i'm writing to the
> correct mailing list, i apologize for any
> inconvenience if i'm not..)

Yes, right list.

> cannot find -lcygwin

Sounds like your install of Cygwin is damaged.
If you do "ls /usr/bin/libcygwin.a", do you get "file not found" ?
If so, reinstall the "cygwin" package.

> do these matter? (from top of config.log)
> /bin/arch              = unknown
[etc.]

No, that's normal.

> i have the latest cygwin and the latest tarballs
> extracted (only stable binary packages) from cygwin

Oh oh. "Extracted" ? You did install with setup.exe, didn't you? If not,
erase your current 'install', and use setup.exe

Max.


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