| ID: | 18 |
| From: | ge...@igor2.repo.hu |
| Date: | Sat, 20 Aug 2016 05:03:45 +0200 (CEST) |
| Subject: | Re: [pcb-rnd] build question on debian |
| in-reply-to: | 16 from James Battat <jb...@wellesley.edu> |
| replies: | 20 from James Battat <jb...@wellesley.edu> |
Hi James, On Fri, 19 Aug 2016, James Battat wrote: > apologies for the really basic question, but on debian, I can no longer build pcb-rnd > > $ pwd > /home/jbattat/pcb-rnd/trunk > $ svn up > $ make distclean > $ ./configure --debug > ? > Checking for fork... not found > not found > Checking for _spawnvp... not found > > ERROR: no fork or _spawnvp. Can not compile pcb-rnd. > > hook_detect_target failed, exiting > > > Not sure what spawnvp is, but no obvious package shows up with "apt-cache search spawnvp" It's a win32 API call. Pcb-rnd needs to run background processes. It should use fork() on *NIX and spawnvp on windows. It's fine that it didn't detect _spawnvp on Debian, but it's strange that it failed to detect fork. Please send me your scconfig/config.log, that'd show what went wrong. TIA, Igor2
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18 Re: [pcb-rnd] build question on debian from ge...@igor2.repo.hu
20 Re: [pcb-rnd] build question on debian from James Battat <jb...@wellesley.edu>
21 Re: [pcb-rnd] build question on debian from ge...@igor2.repo.hu