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Date:	Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:41:54 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
From:	"Sagar R. Shah" <Sagar DOT Shah AT sid DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Compiling Finger
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On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> >I'm trying to compile finger-1.37 using the sources from gnu.org
> >
> >However when I run make it complains about not being able to find sys/acct.h
> >(which is required by os.c)
> >
> >I checked /usr/include/sys and it certainly isn't there.
> >
> >Has this been accidentatlly ommitted? Or do i need to go somewhere else to
> >get it?
>
> It doesn't appear to be "accidentally omitted".  Guess you'll need to port
> your own, unless you find the required structures in other include files...

hmmm.
I found copies of sys/acct.h from various *BSD distributions, and although I
get a bit further compiling finger, it fell over in other places, I fixed a
couple, but eventually gave up.

Has anyone managed to get finger to compile under cygwin?


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