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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


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