[SRILM User List] The bug in sys/wait.h with Cygwin 4.5

[trinity s]

Yes, I just figured out I was getting mixed up between two issues.
Sorry for the confusion.
 I turned off Tcl support by adding NO_TCL=X following the SRILM build
FAQs. Hasn't messed anything for me so far.

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Andreas Stolcke
<stolcke at icsi.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> On 6/4/2012 9:34 AM, trinity s wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>> I came across this post about the error in LM.cc
>> http://www.speech.sri.com/pipermail/srilm-user/2012q1/001162.html
>>
>> I am facing the same issue but the fix suggested does not seem to work
>> for me. I continue to get the exact same error message. I am trying to
>> install SRILM 1.6 using cygwin 4.5.3 on Windows 7.
>> Here's the error message I see:
>>
>> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.5.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
>> cannot find -ltcl84
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> make[2]: *** [../bin/cygwin/maxalloc.exe] Error 1
>> make[1]: *** [release-programs] Error 1
>> make: *** [World] Error 2
>
>
> The subject line of the message is misleading.  Your problem has nothing to
> do with wait.h, but with setting up the proper Tcl installation.
>
> 1. Install tcl/tk within cygwin, Ubuntu, ..., whatever your distribution is.
> 2. Find what the name of the installed library is:  look for
> /usr/lib/libtcl.a, /usr/lib/libtcl8.5.a, etc.
> 3. Assuming the library is called libtcl8.5, edit
> common/Makefile.machine.$MACHINE_TYPE to use
>
>            TCL_LIBRARY = -ltcl8.5
>
> Andreas
>