Re: Dealing with Symlinks

2011-09-18 Thread Eliot Moss
On 9/18/2011 9:28 AM, tedthetool wrote: I am trying to compile openssl. When I run make and make test, I get trivial compile errors. See, error: expected identifier or '(' before '!' token error: stray '\377' in program error: stray '\376' in program My friends tells me that this is because cy

Re: Dealing with Symlinks

2011-09-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/18/2011 9:28 AM, tedthetool wrote: My friends tells me that this is because cygwin doesn't deal with the symlinks present in C header files. How do I remedy this? You'll need to get more specific about this assertion if you

Re: Dealing with Symlinks

2011-09-18 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2011-09-18 13:28Z, tedthetool wrote: > > I am trying to compile openssl. It's already available as a Cygwin package, BTW. > When I run make and make test, I get trivial > compile errors. See, > > error: expected identifier or '(' before '!' token > error: stray '\377' in program > error: str

Dealing with Symlinks

2011-09-18 Thread tedthetool
se cygwin doesn't deal with the symlinks present in C header files. How do I remedy this? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Dealing-with-Symlinks-tp32489424p32489424.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.

Re: Function stat bug when dealing with symlinks.

2008-02-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Pedro Izecksohn on 2/7/2008 9:01 PM: | struct stat member st_mode is wrongly being set by the stat function to | regular file instead of to symlink. Huh? stat is SUPPOSED to dereference symlinks. Use lstat if you want st_mode to repo

Function stat bug when dealing with symlinks.

2008-02-07 Thread Pedro Izecksohn
struct stat member st_mode is wrongly being set by the stat function to regular file instead of to symlink. I packed a test for download: http://www.izecksohn.com/pedro/c/statbug/statbug.tar.gz To use it: tar -xzvf statbug.tar.gz make My configuration: bash-3.2$ uname -a CYGWIN_N