Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 12:37:49AM +0100, goetz fischer wrote:
>   
>> okay so i'll give 4.3.1 a try.
>>     
>
> I doubt that will make a difference.
according to the first answer i got somebody made an almost 4.3.2 
version compile so i thought 4.3.1 might be a good bet.
>   What you need to figure out is why
> the building of the signames.c file failed.  The make rules are this
> (taken from Makemod.in):
>
>  signames.c: signames1.awk signames2.awk ../config.h @SIGNAL_H@
>         $(AWK) -f $(sdir)/signames1.awk @SIGNAL_H@ >sigtmp.c
>         $(CPP) sigtmp.c >sigtmp.out
>         $(AWK) -f $(sdir)/signames2.awk sigtmp.out > $@
>         rm -f sigtmp.c sigtmp.out
>
>  sigcount.h: signames.c
>         grep 'define.*SIGCOUNT' signames.c > $@
>
> My generated Makemod file has "/usr/include/bits/signum.h" in place of
> the @SIGNAL_H@ value.  Those awk and cpp commands should generate a file
> named signames.c that should have a define for SIGCOUNT in it, e.g.:
>
> #define SIGCOUNT        31
>
> It should also define an array named sigs[], e.g.:
>
> char *sigs[SIGCOUNT+4] = {
>         "EXIT",
>         "HUP",
>         "INT",
> 	[...]
>
> Perhaps your awk didn't work right?  Or perhaps the SIGNAL_H file wasn't
> chosen correctly?
>
> Once the signames.c file gets built right, then the sigcount.h file
> should end up with two lines in it.  Mine is this:
>
> #define SIGCOUNT        31
> #define sigmsg(sig) ((sig) <= SIGCOUNT ? sig_msg[sig] : "unknown signal")
>
> At that point, the build errors you cited should go away.
>   
okay, thanks so far.
i'll try to find the respective header.
> ..wayne..
>   

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