Hello, I tried to compile libpng-1.6.29 and failed at first. I obtain:
/tmp/lcl/uxl/make/bin/make all-am make[1]: Entering directory '/cygdrive/D/Users/dexcoff1/dexcoff1/cyglcl/tmp/libpng/libpng-1.6.29' depbase=`echo png.lo | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.lo$||'`;\ /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -g -O2 -MT png.lo -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o png.lo png.c &&\ mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Plo libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -g -O2 -MT png.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/png.Tpo -c png.c -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC -o .libs/png.o In file included from /usr/include/sys/signal.h:22:0, from /usr/include/signal.h:6, from /usr/include/machine/setjmp.h:372, from /usr/include/setjmp.h:10, from pngconf.h:50, from png.h:366, from pngpriv.h:375, from png.c:14: /usr/include/cygwin/signal.h:328:34: error: unknown type name 'siginfo_t' void (*sa_sigaction) ( int, siginfo_t *, void * ); ^ make[1]: *** [Makefile:1174: png.lo] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/cygdrive/D/Users/dexcoff1/dexcoff1/cyglcl/tmp/libpng/libpng-1.6.29' make: *** [Makefile:791: all] Error 2 Further investigation shows that /usr/include/cygwin/signal.h has been modified recently (June) and that if i move "struct sigaction" out of the scope, the problem goes away and libpng is works now: *** /usr/include/cygwin/signal.h.vanilla Mon Jul 3 14:07:58 2017 --- /usr/include/cygwin/signal.h Tue Jul 4 15:53:28 2017 *************** *** 318,324 **** typedef void (*_sig_func_ptr)(int); ! #if __POSIX_VISIBLE struct sigaction { --- 318,324 ---- typedef void (*_sig_func_ptr)(int); ! #if __POSIX_VISIBLE >= 999999 struct sigaction { I really don't know which (signal.h or libpng) is okay (or none). Will someone investigate this? Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple