From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 108200 invoked by alias); 6 Jul 2019 08:24:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 108187 invoked by uid 89); 6 Jul 2019 08:24:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=mirror, tarballs, sk:cygwinp, sk:newlib X-HELO: lb2-smtp-cloud8.xs4all.net Received: from lb2-smtp-cloud8.xs4all.net (HELO lb2-smtp-cloud8.xs4all.net) (194.109.24.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 06 Jul 2019 08:24:23 +0000 Received: from tmp.IAAQpmSODL ([83.162.234.136]) by smtp-cloud8.xs4all.net with ESMTPSA id jfzXhcicyHOZUjfzYhIVfu; Sat, 06 Jul 2019 10:24:20 +0200 Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 08:24:00 -0000 Message-ID: <8040fde0c0402fc3361515edbdd26d01@smtp-cloud8.xs4all.net> From: Houder Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin can not be compiled with gcc 8.3.0 References: <3a8155076bbb80ecf8a7a8d3076a331f@smtp-cloud8.xs4all.net> In-Reply-to: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=fixed User-Agent: mua.awk 0.99 X-SW-Source: 2019-07/txt/msg00042.txt.bz2 On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 22:33:20, Biswapriyo Nath wrote: [snip] > > cygwin is built using cygport ... > > Is there any docs about it? I don't find the cygwin.cygport file in source > tree. Also I don't use source tarballs, git is my first choice. Also the > configure script or Makefile didn't warn me that I've not that cygport > package/script. Documents about using cygport? Well, sort of ... - https://cygwin.com/packages.html - https://cygwin.com/packaging-contributors-guide.html - - https://cygwinports.github.io/cygport/cygport.1.html - https://github.com/cygwinports/cygport/blob/master/README - https://cygwinports.github.io/cygport/toc_index.html Using (Cygwin) git as starting point? - https://cygwin.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git - git is 'bleeding edge' (unstable by definition) cygwin.cygport file? - No, not present in git ... (not present in the git for newlib-cygwin) - a cygwin source tarball (to be found on any Cygwin mirror) is composed of a tarball, which represents git at a 'specific moment' in time plus the cygwin.cygport file - specific moment? Look for the 'cygwin-3_x_y' tags in git ... mirrors: https://cygwin.com/mirrors.html cygport build/ cygport package - the cygport build system is basically a wrapper around autoconf etc. (and build systems like cmake) - i.e. configure, make (Makefile) do not know about cygport Regards, Henri -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple