Re: Errors when compiling gnutls-3.3.17 with gcc-5.4.0

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 6/30/2016 7:56 AM, U-leila\vzell wrote:
> Hi
>
> I get the following error when trying to recompile gnutls-3.3.17 with
> latest gcc-5.4.0, last successful build was for cygwin 2.2.1 with gcc-4.9.2:
>
> Has anything changed in between....have been absent for quite a time now.
>
>   CC       gettime.lo
> In file included from /usr/include/sys/signal.h:112:0,
>                  from /usr/include/signal.h:6,
>                  from ./signal.h:52,
>                  from ./sys/select.h:108,
>                  from /usr/include/sys/time.h:47,
>                  from ./sys/time.h:39,
>                  from ./sys/select.h:87,
>                  from /usr/include/sys/types.h:68,
>                  from ./sys/types.h:28,
>                  from /usr/include/time.h:28,
>                  from ./time.h:39,
>                  from /cygdrive/d/misc/src/release/gnutls-3.3.17-1.i686/src/gnutls-3.3.17/src/gl/timespec.h:22,
>                  from /cygdrive/d/misc/src/release/gnutls-3.3.17-1.i686/src/gnutls-3.3.17/src/gl/gettime.c:22:
> /usr/include/cygwin/signal.h:175:3: error: unknown type name 'pthread_attr_t'
>    pthread_attr_t *sigev_notify_attributes; /* notification attributes */
>    ^
[...]

This is a gnulib problem that has already been fixed upstream.  See the 
thread starting at

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-03/msg00054.html

So you just have to update the gl subdirectory of the gnutls source.  Or 
just manually apply the patch from the gnulib fix.

Ken

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