cygwin trouble

[Imon Fyre]

ok.. heres my problem..

i keep getting errors when i try to install stuff into my cygwin..

ill do the configure fine, but when i goto do the make, it gives me errors
like so



also cygwin on
-windows2000
-duron 700
-256 mb ram

[joe_bruin]

what are you trying to install? does this happen in all apps? is it always the same error?

it looks like the app you are trying to build has configured itself incorrectly (or is not familiar with the cygwin environment). this is not uncommon. i've found that the cygwin has some strange interpretations of various common functions.

cygwin defines:
const char *_EXFUN(strsignal, (int __signo));

linux and bsd both define:
char *strsignal(int sig);

you should probably fix the application to expect this difference. in the file "gstrfuncs.c", line 674, is probably the line you're looking to change.

[Imon Fyre]

im trying to install pkgconfig so that i can install glib 2.2.1. sites that i have looked at and the readme sez that it should install right outta the box under cygwin

should i change it too

char *strsignal(int sig);


or will that mess everything else up too?

[joe_bruin]

this should fix it:

/* extern char *strsignal (int sig); */
extern const char *_EXFUN(strsignal, (int __signo));

[Imon Fyre]

cool thanx Joe