problem building program: undef ref _imp__gettext

[Charles Wilson]

Robert Collins wrote:

> 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.


don't you need a daemon to handle permissions for fifos to work? Or am I 
confusing that with something else?

--Chuck






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