Re: build of coreutils fails with many many messages

[Denis Excoffier <cygwin@Denis-Excoffier.org>]

> On 2016-04-01 13:03, Ken Brown wrote:
> 
> On 4/1/2016 2:18 AM, Denis Excoffier wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I tried to build coreutils-8.25 with the latest cygwin (2.5.0-0.10 or 2.4.1-1)
>> and all the latest packages, and as 'configure' seems to pass ok, 'make'
>> fails with hundreds of lines of messages like below.
>> 
>> Please can someone reproduce this (Windows 7, 32bits)?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Denis Excoffier
>> 
>> 
>> In file included from /usr/include/sys/signal.h:112:0,
>>                  from /usr/include/signal.h:6,
>>                  from ./lib/signal.h:52,
>>                  from ./lib/sys/select.h:108,
>>                  from /usr/include/sys/time.h:47,
>>                  from ./lib/sys/time.h:39,
>>                  from ./lib/sys/select.h:87,
>>                  from /usr/include/sys/types.h:85,
>>                  from ./lib/sys/types.h:28,
>>                  from /usr/include/sys/unistd.h:12,
>>                  from /usr/include/unistd.h:4,
>>                  from ./lib/unistd.h:40,
>>                  from ./lib/stdlib.h:96,
>>                  from lib/malloca.h:23,
>>                  from lib/malloca.c:22:
>> /usr/include/cygwin/signal.h:178:3: error: unknown type name 'pthread_attr_t'
>>    pthread_attr_t *sigev_notify_attributes; /* notification attributes */
> 
> This looks like the gnulib issue that I reported in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-03/msg00054.html.  Try applying the fix from that thread to the gnulib tree in the coreutils sources.

The patch indicated works perfectly. It also applies to wget-1.17.1. Thank you.

Denis Excoffier.
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