Re: cygwin build

[Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>]

Am 02.08.2023 um 10:09 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> On Aug  2 08:36, Thomas Wolff wrote:
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>> Am 01.08.2023 um 23:27 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
>>> On Aug  1 23:05, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>>> I took some of the latest cygwin snapshots (by the way, there are no newer
>>>> ones on the snapshots page):
>>> Snapshots are no longer produced.  You should download the latest
>>> test versions via setup.
>> So what if I need an older version?
> It's all documented:
>
> https://cygwin.com/git.html
> https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin
Thanks. Actually package mingw zlib was missing (when I installed it, it 
got mistargeted to my parallel test installation).
It now worked, kind of, with some build errors after producing the dll.
However, after I checked out an older git commit, rebuild fails again:
make[4]: Entering directory 
'/cygdrive/c/tmp/newlib-cygwin/build/x86_64-pc-cygwin/newlib/libc'
make[4]: *** No rule to make target 'all'.  Stop.
So I'm not getting another dll after changing the git reference.

>
> Creating snapshots was a really outdated method.  It relied on on a
> non-standard, third-party script system, which started to fray at the
> edges.  So we switched to an automated build system which creates test
> releases on every Cygwin-related change to the git repository instead.
> When we did that I think I even made a matching announcement on the
> mailing list.
Setup offers 3.5.0 versions but not older ones. So a working build 
process would be essential for certain bug analysis.
Thomas

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> Corinna