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Re: Problems building cygwin from source


> >I'm interested in building the cygwin DLL from the source, but I'm having
> >problems.
> >
> >I've attached my cygcheck output. I tried the following sequence under my
> >home directory...
> >
> >$ mkdir cygwin-src
> >$ cd cygwin-src
> >$ export CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/src
> >$ cvs -z3 co winsup
> >$ mkdir Build
> >$ cd Build
> >$ ../src/winsup/configure --prefix=/usr/install --enable-debugging -v
2>&1 |
> >tee configure.log
> >$ make 2>&1 | tee make.log
>
> ../src/configure --prefix=/usr/install --enable-debugging -v
>        ^
>   no 'winsup'

Thanks Chris,

I think I foolishly picked this up from some misinformation in the mailing
list thread "Can't build cygwin from CVS: configure error", but the
documentation on http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC104 is perfectly clear.
Just didn't notice the difference myself.

Thanks again,
Pete


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