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Re: autoconf error with /dev/ptmx
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>,<jjarvie at newsguy dot com>
- Subject: Re: autoconf error with /dev/ptmx
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 23:37:37 +1000
- References: <200107201332.GAA08218@newsguy.com>
----- Original Message -----
From: <jjarvie@newsguy.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:32 PM
Subject: autoconf error with /dev/ptmx
> I've got a strange problem compiling stunnel-3.15
>
> configure calls the following checks:
>
> AC_CHECK_FILE("/dev/ptmx", AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(HAVE_DEV_PTMX))
> AC_CHECK_FILE("/dev/ptc", AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(HAVE_DEV_PTS_AND_PTC))
>
> The first check succeeds(!) and the second fails.
That's because cygwin has a virtual /dev/ptmx and no /dev/ptc. You are
getting the correct results.
> ls -al /dev gives:
>
> total 0
> srwxrwxrwx 1 Administ None 15 Jun 19 2000 log
> crw-rw-rw- 1 Everyone Everyone 19, 0 Jul 20 2001 null
This is irrelevant :-/. Sorry.
Rob
> To fix this all I have to do is delete the HAVE_DEV_PTMX define in
Makefile
> but I would like to know what is going on.
>
> Thanks for any ideas
>
> John Jarvie
>
>
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