From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
To: Max Bowsher <maxb at ukf dot net>
CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com, Vishal Jain <vxj45 at hotmail dot com>
Subject: Re: Help!Unable to compile 1.3.22-1 sources
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 22:16:11 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > Back when I compiled from source tarballs, I used a simpler approach:
> >
> > - Install sources for cygwin, w32api
> > - cd /usr/src/cygwin-<ver>/winsup && ln -s /usr/src/w32api-<ver>
w32api
> > - cd /usr/src/cygwin-<ver> && mkdir build && cd build && configure
<opts>
> >
> > where <opts> are the options from http://cygwin.com/contrib.html.
>
> I can't find any options there. But it works for me with no options.
Actually, the options were from <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC104>,
but as I now look at it, they are only --prefix=... and -v (or so I say
now; back then I was so configure-unwary that I didn't want to digress one
little bit from the prescribed track lest I be lost in mounds of gory
details).
> > I don't know why you'd need mingw...
>
> I didn't try without. I just set out to make the tarball look as much
like a
> cvs checkout as possible.
I think mingw is optional. Come to think of it, I remember Chris Faylor's
comment that he made w32api optional as well... But that may have been in
a different context.
Igor
> > You *do* need bo build in a separate directory, though...
>
> Yes. Vishal, did you do this?
> Max.
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