Building ksh93 on cygwin

[Mark Geisert]

Ben Altman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to get ksh93 to successfully build on cygwin. My first
> issue was nl_types.h being absent. I installed the catgets package to
> get it and try to rebuild.
>
> Now it is complaining about  posix_spawnattr_t:
> + cc -D_BLD_STATIC -D_BLD_ast -I.
> -I/home/baltman/ast-beta/src/lib/libast -Icomp
> -I/home/baltman/ast-beta/src/lib/libast/comp -Iinclude
> -I/home/baltman/ast-beta/src/lib/libast/include -Istd
> -I/home/baltman/ast-beta/src/lib/libast/std -D_PACKAGE_ast -c
> /home/baltman/ast-beta/src/lib/libast/misc/spawnvex.c
> /home/baltman/ast-beta/src/lib/libast/misc/spawnvex.c: In function 'spawnvex':
> /home/baltman/ast-beta/src/lib/libast/misc/spawnvex.c:802:2: error:
> unknown type name 'posix_spawnattr_t'
>   posix_spawnattr_t  ax;
>
> I asked about it on https://github.com/att/ast/issues/127 and they
> said I need to look into how/where 'posix_spawnattr_t is defined under
> Cygwin. Would any one here be able to help me out? I am hoping that if
> I can successfully get it to compile then the next step would be to
> follow the steps needed to get it included as a package for cygwin but
> first things first.

Does the source file #include <spawn.h> ?

..mark


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