Problems building Octave 2.1.10 with b20

Tue Nov 10 22:02:00 GMT 1998

William D Kirby <wdkirby@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> I have been trying to build GNU Octave development version 2.1.10 using
> cygwin b20. When I executed it I get the error message "Fatal: invalid
> password object".
>> John Eaton sent me the following test program which compiled fine, but
> outputted nothing when executed.

[ ... code elided ... ]
> struct passwd *pw = getpwuid (getuid ());
>> printf ("name: %s\n", pw->pw_name);

Are you certain that there is a /etc/passwd file, and if so, it has no
cr/lf if the mount is binary? Works for me on a b20 box. Please check for 
null return just to make sure.
>> Then I tried a simpler program than above which produced an error.
>> int
> main (void)
> {
>> printf ("hello\n");
> printf ("%s\n",getuid ());
 ^^^^
	 does %d give you the same error?
Regards,
Mumit
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