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Re: problem building program: undef ref _imp__gettext
- To: Mark Paulus <commpg at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: Re: problem building program: undef ref _imp__gettext
- From: Robert Collins <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: 28 Aug 2001 13:46:46 +1000
- Cc: cygwin mailing list <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- References: <ITDOMAIN002DYjqQMol00000064@itdomain002.itdomain.net.au>
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
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