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Re: building cygwin: bug and question
On 26/10/2010 18:06, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:21:38PM +0100, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> bug first:
>> I noticed that running "make clean" in the build directory
>> also remove
>>
>> winsup/cygwin/tlsoffsets.h
>> winsup/cygwin/devices.cc
>
> As you can see from the Makefile, it is supposed to delete these files.
> They are generated files.
But they should perhaps be under distclean rather than clean, shouldn't they?
>> How should I configure ?
>> I found nothing on the source documentation
>
> You'll have to play around more with things like --prefix and
> --exec-prefix. I don't have the exact commands since they are
> essentially embedded in the bowels of the "mknetrel" script. Corinna
> doesn't use that but I assume she has something similar.
I always just configure with "--prefix=/usr", and it WJFFM. ('mknetrel'
doesn't appear to exist any more.)
cheers,
DaveK