Re: Compiling cygwin1.dll

[Michael Wild <themiwi@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Michael Wild!
>
>> You tell me. I just checked out the source and followed the
>> instructions as I said in my first message. When doing so, there is a
>> dependency and binutils gets built.
>
>> If the instructions are outdated, I did something obviously wrong, or
>> there is a better way, please let me know.
>
> I've used this script to rebuild it.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> SUITE_ROOT=/c/dev/sdc1/cygwin
> BUILD_PATH="$SUITE_ROOT/build"
> INSTALL_PATH="$SUITE_ROOT/install"
> BUILD_MODULE="$SUITE_ROOT/src${PWD##$BUILD_PATH}"
>
> {
> "$BUILD_MODULE/configure" -v --prefix="$INSTALL_PATH"
> LANG=C make
> } |& tee rebuild.log
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> Checked out the repository into $SUITE_ROOT/src, recreated the necessary paths
> in $SUITE_ROOT/build and restarted the script from certain paths until I
> succeed in building required portions of suite. (I was mainly intersted in
> winsup.)

Hi Andrey Repin

Many thanks. So you are saying, you never used the top-level build
system? That would explain a lot. So it is just an iterative trial and
error process? Way to go...

Cheers

Michael

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