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RE: newbie problem
- From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms at icon-scm dot com>
- To: 'Pavel Tsekov' <ptsekov at syntrex dot com>, "Albert L. Wagner" <alwagner at uark dot edu>
- Cc: Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:44:17 +0100
- Subject: RE: newbie problem
Hi Pavel,
severe typo!
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-scm.com)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavel Tsekov [SMTP:ptsekov@syntrex.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 09:44
> To: Albert L. Wagner
> Cc: Cygwin
> Subject: Re: newbie problem
>
> Wait a moment - are you using the mingw environment
> to build the Berekley DB ? This would possibly explain
> your previous post - configure couldn't find "select".
>
> mingw is a posix emulation layer - i.e. it provides
[Heribert] ^ cygwin
> posix C library interface and system calls ontop the
> Win32 environment, while mingw is a compiler toolchain
> based on gnu tools ported to windows.
>
[Heribert] [snip]
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