From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16374 invoked by alias); 4 Jun 2014 14:45:10 -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 16313 invoked by uid 89); 4 Jun 2014 14:45:09 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-wi0-f172.google.com Received: from mail-wi0-f172.google.com (HELO mail-wi0-f172.google.com) (209.85.212.172) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 04 Jun 2014 14:45:08 +0000 Received: by mail-wi0-f172.google.com with SMTP id hi2so8574032wib.17 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2014 07:45:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.180.106.194 with SMTP id gw2mr6007429wib.47.1401893101483; Wed, 04 Jun 2014 07:45:01 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.194.110.170 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Jun 2014 07:44:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <538DF2D8.8030504@cygwin.com> References: <161164160.20140603143233@yandex.ru> <538DF2D8.8030504@cygwin.com> From: Michael Wild Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 14:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Compiling cygwin1.dll To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-06/txt/msg00066.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 06/03/2014 08:57 AM, Michael Wild wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >>> >>> Greetings, Michael Wild! >>> >>>> In order to pinpoint an error I'm trying to compile cygwin1.dll from >>>> source following the instructions here: >>> >>> >>> My question is: do you actually need to rebuild it, or you just need the >>> debug >>> symbols? >>> >>>> https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin. However, >>>> when building binutils, I trip over this error: >>>> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2014-02/msg00064.html. According to >>>> DJ (https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2014-02/msg00067.html), >>>> "attempts to build the old binutils/gdb in CVS are going to be >>>> doomed". Apparently the development of these packages is now tracked >>>> in a separate git repo. So, my question is now, how do I get a working >>>> build for the cygwin DLL? Do I have to replace binutils/gdb in the CVS >>>> checkout with the git checkout? >>> >>> >>>> How are the current snapshots built? >>> >>> >>>> Thanks for any pointers in the right direction. >> >> >> >> Dear Andrey, >> >> I really need to build it, in order to pinpoint which commit breaks >> things. > > > OK but why are you building 'binutils' if you just want to build the Cygwin > DLL? > > > -- > Larry > 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. Michael -- 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