[ros-kernel] Re: pipetools build failure

Martin Fuchs martin-fuchs at gmx.net
Sun Dec 7 13:52:26 CET 2003


> Hello World,

World answers:   ;-)

Hello Sebastian,

> pipetools does not build on Linux.
> The problem is
> | CC = gcc
> | CXX = g++
> | LINK = g++
> in the Makefile, which overrides the variables set in rules.mak.

I think, you don't need pipetools on Linux.
They are some native tools helping when debugging using VMWare.
Also pipetunnel uses winsock, which is only available on Windows.

Compiling of the whole directory could be disabled on Unix.
Does VMWare on Linux support named pipes anyway?

   Martin



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