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Re: hate to ask- compiling cygwin1.dll
- To: Cygwin-L <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: hate to ask- compiling cygwin1.dll
- From: Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:48:03 -0700
- Organization: -ENOENT
- References: <md5:D0B4D85BEF9788AC68AF545A573A247F>
Mark Paulus wrote:
>
> I do believe that in general, you shouldn't compile cygwin.dll
> in the source directory.
This isn't a "should", it's a "must". If you try and so much as run
configure in the source directory, you get an uncompilable mess, even if
you do later try and configure into a separate build directory.
One speaks from experience. :)
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