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Re: autoconf error with /dev/ptmx


On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:32:34AM -0700, jjarvie@newsguy.com wrote:
> I've got a strange problem compiling stunnel-3.15
> 
> configure calls the following checks:
> 
> AC_CHECK_FILE("/dev/ptmx", AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(HAVE_DEV_PTMX))
> AC_CHECK_FILE("/dev/ptc", AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(HAVE_DEV_PTS_AND_PTC))
> 
> The first check succeeds(!) and the second fails.
> 
> ls -al /dev gives:
> 
> total 0
> srwxrwxrwx    1 Administ None           15 Jun 19  2000 log
> crw-rw-rw-    1 Everyone Everyone  19,   0 Jul 20  2001 null
> 
> To fix this all I have to do is delete the HAVE_DEV_PTMX define in Makefile
> but I would like to know what is going on.

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