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

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

[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.

Ken


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