Error: unknown type name ‘pthread_attr_t’ in signal.h

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Oct 18 07:52, Ken Brown wrote:
> [CC-ing the OP in case he is not subscribed to the list.]
> 
> On 10/18/2017 6:13 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Oct 17 18:36, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 3:12 AM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi Everyone,
> > > > 
> > > > I'm trying to build Emacs on Cygwin. I use the platform as a test bed
> > > > because of Newlib. Emacs is failing with:
> > > 
> > > Forgive my ignorance... Should this question go to the Newlib folks?
> > 
> > Good thinking, but in this case, no.  The problem (*iff* there is any)
> > and the potential fix would only affect Cygwin headers.
> 
> As I said in https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-10/msg00144.html, this is
> almost certainly the same gnulib issue that has already been fixed
> (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-03/msg00054.html). The OP
> is probably building old emacs sources that hadn't incorporated the fix.

Yeah, I saw that, Ken, but thanks for pointing it out.  I was
talking about this more in a theoretical way :)


Corinna

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