Re: problem building program: undef ref _imp__gettext

[Robert Collins <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

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.

Rob



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