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how to re-build Cygwin core package?
- From: Gernot Hillier <gernot dot hillier at siemens dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:07:56 +0200
- Subject: how to re-build Cygwin core package?
- Organization: Siemens AG
Hi!
I'm currently trying to rebuild the Cygwin core package (i.e.
cygwin-1.5.10-3.tar.bz2) from the cygwin-1.5.10-3-src.tar.bz2 package because
I patched a small detail in cygwin.dll. I'd really like to use Cygwin's
setup.exe to install my changed version and so I'm trying to produce the
binary packages as delivered by cygwin.com normally.
I found "How do I rebuild the tools on my NT box?" in the FAQs and used it as
a starting point. Now I can compile the tools and do "make install" to
another directory, but the structure there looks completely different than
that seen in the binary package cygwin-1.5.10-3.tar.bz2. It also seems that
this tree also contains files which belong to the mingw-runtime and w32api
packages normally (but which bring along their own source packages??).
So now my question is: what exactly is the process used for building the
"official" cygwin core binary packages? Should I replace the cygwin,
mingw-runtime and w32api packages all at once to have a clean new Cygwin?
I learned from http://cygwin.com/setup.html#package_contents that there should
be a description telling the user how to rebuild a package, but I can't find
it for the cygwin package itself.
Any help or hint is greatly appreciated...
--
Bye,
Gernot Hillier
CT SE 2
Siemens AG, Mch P
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