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Re: Compiling Finger
- To: <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Compiling Finger
- From: "Sagar R. Shah" <Sagar dot Shah at sid dot cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:41:54 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> >I'm trying to compile finger-1.37 using the sources from gnu.org
> >
> >However when I run make it complains about not being able to find sys/acct.h
> >(which is required by os.c)
> >
> >I checked /usr/include/sys and it certainly isn't there.
> >
> >Has this been accidentatlly ommitted? Or do i need to go somewhere else to
> >get it?
>
> It doesn't appear to be "accidentally omitted". Guess you'll need to port
> your own, unless you find the required structures in other include files...
hmmm.
I found copies of sys/acct.h from various *BSD distributions, and although I
get a bit further compiling finger, it fell over in other places, I fixed a
couple, but eventually gave up.
Has anyone managed to get finger to compile under cygwin?
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