build problems

[Charles Wilson]

Okay, THIS is the thread to which the following reply should have been
attached.

FWIW, the problems described below were fixed with the Feb 28 snapshot.
That includes the 100% usage problem and the weird configure failures
when building.

--Chuck


On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Charles S. Wilson wrote:

> After updating to Feb 4 cygwin1.dll, I can no longer build many packages
> that rely on configure; it seems to have something to do with file
> access. Since Corinna pointed out the missing filemode in the open()
> call in cygipc, I discovered more missing filemodes in the open() calls
> in gdbm. 
> 
> Okay, so I added filemode bits to cygipc (I'll upload v1.05 soon) and
> was able to build it -- cygipc does not use configure (e.g. autoconf,
> etc). However, when I made similar fixes to gdbm, I got the following
> errors when I ran configure:
> 
> cwilson : belgarion : /usr/local/src/gdbm-1.8.0-1 > ./configure
> 
> ...
> checking for off_t... yes
> checking for st_blksize in struct stat... yes
> updating cache ./config.cache
> creating ./config.status
> creating Makefile
> sed: can't read /Makefile.in: No such file or directory
> creating autoconf.h
> cat: /autoconf.h.in: No such file or directory
> autoconf.h is unchanged
> 
> cwilson : belgarion : /usr/local/src/gdbm-1.8.0-1 >
> 
> I've also seen these problems with bash-2.0.3 and make-3.78 -- "sed:
> can't read /foo: No such file or directory". Anyway, reverting to the
> 20000131 cygwin1.dll eliminates these problems. Using the 20000223
> cygwin1.dll failed, but for a different reason -- bash got hung while
> reading the .dotfiles. Has anyone seen this build/configure problem
> before? What's going on?
> 
> --Chuck
> 
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