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Re: Having trouble building cygwin1.dll from source


On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 02:45:10PM -0600, Ray Bryant wrote:
> I downloaded cygwin-1.1.8-2-src.tar.gz, untar'd it, ran configure in the top
> level directory, then typed "make all".  After populating the i686-pc-cygwin
[...]
> Any suggestions on how to fix this?  Thanks.

Never(!) build Cygwin in the source dir. Create a new dir for example
parallel to the top level source dir, cd into it and call configure:

	cd <toplevelsourcedir>
	cd ..
	mkdir bin
	cd bin
	../<toplevelsourcedir>/configure
	make

Corinna

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