From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Collins To: Charles Wilson Cc: Mark Paulus , cygwin mailing list Subject: Re: problem building program: undef ref _imp__gettext Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 00:14:00 -0000 Message-id: <998981249.27029.6.camel@robertlinux> References: <998970409.26907.3.camel@robertlinux> <3B8B264C.5030800@ece.gatech.edu> X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg01273.html On 28 Aug 2001 01:04:12 -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > 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? The daemon is _needed_ for improving some security aspects. It's also _needed_ for shm to work properly. Coincidentally it makes things like fifos a lot easier, because you can potentially just pass around a pair of pipe() handles, rather than the mucking around with mapped memory regions I'm doing at the moment. Rob -- 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/