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Re: Help! Can't get B20 to build
- To: Gerry Weaver <gerryw at austin dot rr dot com>, "cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Help! Can't get B20 to build
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 20:30:42 -0800 (PST)
- Reply-To: earnie_boydNOREPLY at yahoo dot com
--- Gerry Weaver <gerryw@austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am having some trouble building the B20 release. I have done the
> following;
>
> My machine is a pentium II 300 w/ Windows NT 4 SP3
>
>
> 1. Installed the binary image of cygwin B20
> 2. Downloaded and untarred dev-src_tar
> 3. Executed a cygwin console (shell)
> 4. Changed directory to the src directory
And this is your downfall. It is a know FAQ that you cannot configure in the
src directory for cygwin. You should create a directory in the parent to src
named E.G. build and run the configure in that directory giving the appropriate
prefix and srcdir parameters.
=====
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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<http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html>
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