I downloaded Cygwin 1.7.0-58 source from path:
http://ftp.eq.uc.pt/software/pc/prog/cygwin/release-2/cygwin/

Also downloaded all the packages of cygwin version 1.7.0.58

ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa-2/index.html"


And followed instructions to compile from below document:

https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin

I installed  required packages and tried to compile cygwin version 1.7.0-58 .
 Now my compilation went down but again stopped at some point.Its
halting in awk command after warning

config.status: WARNING:  '/oss/src/winsup/Makefile.in' seems to ignore
the --datarootdir setting

awk: ./confXqR7rV/subs.awk:1: BEGIN {\r
awk: ./confXqR7rV/subs.awk:1:        ^ backslash not last character on line
config.status: error: could not create Makefile

I have set SHELLOPTS= igncr ,still its give error .

Even I tried command dos2unix on configure files and awk.

Please give some clue what is going wrong here.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Rashi Singhal <singhal.rashi@gmail.com> wrote:
> I downloaded Cygwin 1.7.0-58 source from path:
> http://ftp.eq.uc.pt/software/pc/prog/cygwin/release-2/cygwin/
>
> Also downloaded all the packages of cygwin version 1.7.0.58
>
> ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa-2/index.html"
>
>
> And followed instructions to compile from below document:
>
> https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin
>
> I have downloaded gcc-ada still getting error on this package while
> compiling ( it hangs on this while configuring "ada" module)
>
> Please help me further on this.
>
> Is there any other procedure for building an older release of cygwin.