[MITgcm-support] Problem building MITgcm on Cygwin: lack of ucontext.h

[Dimitris Menemenlis]

Hi Mark, problem is fixed in code newer than checkpoint58f_post, see below.
Or comment out lines in sigreg.c manually.


> Re: [MITgcm-support] how to build the mitgcm code on cygwin?
> 
> From: Ed Hill <ed at eh3.com>
> To: mitgcm-support at mitgcm.org
> Reply-To: mitgcm-support at mitgcm.org
> Date: May 23 2006 - 12:17am
> 
> On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 08:10 -0700, Dimitris Menemenlis wrote:
>> Hi Ed, I have a full installation of cygwin but there is no "ucontext.h" header
>> file anywhere. So I get the same error message as Brainf does. Shall we
>> exclude sigreg.c by defining a TARGET_CYGWIN flag in the cygwin_ia32_g77
>> build_option? Is there a better way to do this?
> 
> Hi Dimitris,
> 
> I've added a few lines to genmake2 so that having:
> 
> HAVE_SIGREG=f
> 
> in your optfile (eg. on cygwin) will, in a *very* portable fashion,
> completely remove all the signal registration bits.
> 
> Ed
> 
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