From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>, <jjarvie@newsguy.com>
Subject: Re: autoconf error with /dev/ptmx
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 06:34:00 -0000
Message-id: <013d01c11121$24cd1ea0$806410ac@local>
References: <200107201332.GAA08218@newsguy.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg01158.html

----- Original Message -----
From: <jjarvie@newsguy.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:32 PM
Subject: autoconf error with /dev/ptmx


> 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.

> 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

This is irrelevant :-/. Sorry.

Rob

> 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.
>
> Thanks for any ideas
>
> John Jarvie
>
>
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