Re: FVWM: help make error

From: Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:45:57 -0600

On 24 Mar 2001 15:43:51 -0500, WildWiredWacky wrote:
>
> I try to compile fvwm under cygwin for NT.
> This is the error messae I got. Any help
> is appreciated:
>
> .....
> make[4]: Entering directory `/temp/fvwm-2.3.29/modules/FvwmCommand'
> gcc -g -O2 -o FvwmCommandS FvwmCommandS.o -L../../libs -lfvwm
> FvwmCommandS.o(.text+0xb9e): undefined reference to `mkfifo'
> FvwmCommandS.o(.text+0xbc7): undefined reference to `mkfifo'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[4]: *** [FvwmCommandS] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/temp/fvwm-2.3.29/modules/FvwmCommand'

Either cygwin does not implement mkfifo function (POSIX) or it is defined
in other than sys/stat.h place. Can you try to find this out?

Do you have a linking problem if you explicitly add the following line to
the end of FvwmCommand.h?

  extern int mkfifo (const char *pathname, mode_t mode);

Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Sun Mar 25 2001 - 16:46:32 BST

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