Re: [Texmacs-dev] iconv support on cygwin (fwd)

[Andreas Seidl]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Michael Lachmann wrote:

> > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
> > cannot
> > find -lutil
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make[2]: [bin/tm_r] Error 1 (ignored)
> >
> 
> libutil.a is used for the function forkpty(). In cygwin this seems to be in 
> libc, so no libutil is needed. However, in my cygwin the function pselect and 
> its friends are not available - do you have such fuctions in yours? This 
> function is the part that waits for input from either R or texmacs, or for a 
> signal.... so it is very important for tm_r.

I have found the following page, which says that "Libutil.a is deprecated"  
and "All functionality intentionally exported from libutil.a is now
exported genuinely by the Cygwin DLL itself". This includes forkpty.
 
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01209.html

Andreas
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