Neil Zanella <nzanella_at_cs.mun.ca> writes:
>
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Michael Han wrote:
>
> > mkfifo() is unsupported under Cygwin, which hardly comes as a
> > surprise, since most special files found in Unix have no corresponding
> > equivalent in Win32: symlinks, hard links, fifos, block specials,
> > character specials... Have a look at:
> >
> > http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC18
> >
> > for the entry for mkfifo().
>
> You are perfectly right in pointing out that the FAQ mentions the
> following: mkfifo: P 5.4.2.1 -- unimplemented!!!
>
> Perhaps this problem can be solved by testing for the value of
> either uname -s for CYGWIN_NT-5.0 and other values or $TERM
> for cygwin in the make install script or something similar.
> That way we could have a working make install under cygwin too.
Try doing "make -k". Make will keep going even if there are errors.
See how much of fvwm you can build.
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Received on Tue Apr 24 2001 - 05:07:50 BST