Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: problem building program: undef ref _imp__gettext From: Robert Collins To: Mark Paulus Cc: cygwin mailing list In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.12 (Preview Release) Date: 28 Aug 2001 13:46:46 +1000 Message-Id: <998970409.26907.3.camel@robertlinux> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Aug 2001 03:47:45.0568 (UTC) FILETIME=[32A83200:01C12F74] 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. 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/