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Re: Unable to build cygwin from cvs sources
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Unable to build cygwin from cvs sources
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 09:39:07 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 06:30:35AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >--- John Paulson <munch@powertv.com> wrote:
> >>I've downloaded the sources to cygwin using cvs and followed the
> >>instructions on http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/cvs.html but
> >>that causes the following error message to eventually appear. I'm
> >>using cygwin 1.1.2 with w95.
> >>
> >>
> >>running /bin/sh ./configure --host=i586-pc-cygwin --build=i586-pc-cygwin
> >>--with
> >>-newlib --enable-multilib --with-target-subdir=i586-pc-cygwin
> >>--cache-file=../..
> >>/config.cache --srcdir=.
> >>loading cache ../../config.cache
> >>configure: error: can not find install-sh or install.sh in . ./.. ./../..
> >>configure: error: ./configure failed for cygwin
> >
> >I've successfully built the cvs cygwin dll with out headaches.
> >
> >In the parent of src
> >mkdir bld
> >cd bld
> >../src/configure --prefix=/usr
> >make
> >
> >YMMV,
>
> From the sound of the email, I think the problem is pretty clear. There
> needs to be an install-sh available where configure can find it. You
> can't just check out the winsup directory to compile cygwin. You need
> files from the top-level, too.
>
Oh, sorry, I guess I must have been smart enough to know what to do when I got
the complaint from configure. ;^)
Cheers,
=====
---
Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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