Mail Archives: cygwin/1996/12/30/00:36:51
The latest release beta 17.1 says (about beta 17)
> This is a major release. In particular, it is now possible to
>rebuild the tools natively under x86 NT when the full Cygnus
>Developers' Kit (CDK) and the User Tools are both installed correctly.
I tried installing the port over the weekend. The following is the list of
problems (and fixes) to build the release (based on my building it on NT4.0
Build 1381: Service Pack 2) on X86. The scripts below run in cygnus release
of bash and utliities.
1. Extract all.tar.gz to /usr/local and answer YES to:
Replace: include/g++/Complex.h?
Old: 07/12/96 10:32 147 bytes
New: 07/12/96 10:36 200 bytes
2. Extract cdksrc.tar.gz to /usr/local/src/win32-b17.1 and answer NO to:
Replace: include/g++/Complex.h?
Old: 07/12/96 10:32 147 bytes
New: 07/12/96 10:36 200 bytes
* These will not cause any serious problems -- I am listing them just for
completeness.
3. Obtain and extract grep-2.0.tar.gz (ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu) to
/usr/local/src, and build grep (which has not been packaged in b17.1
distribution, and which is required to build gcc). All you have to do:
cd /usr/local/gcc-2.0
./configure
make
/usr/local/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/install -c \
grep.exe /usr/local/bin/grep.exe
rm -f /usr/local/bin/egrep.exe
ln /usr/local/bin/grep.exe /usr/local/bin/egrep.exe
rm -f /usr/local/bin/fgrep.exe
ln /usr/local/bin/grep.exe /usr/local/bin/fgrep.exe
/usr/local/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/install -c -m 644 \
./grep.man /usr/local/man/man1/grep.1
**** NOTE: I am installing in standard path, not cygnus path.
4. Create glue.h in modify times.cc (to fix utimes() bug) and build:
cd /usr/local/source/win32-b17.1
echo >newlib/libc/stdio/glue.h
[ edit winsup/times.cc ]
[ append "LL" to "#define NSPERSEC 10000000" at line 25 ]
[ delete line "return 0" (line 438) - end of utimes() ]
./configure
make
**** NOTE: Makefile needs glue.h, but an empty glue.h is sufficient.
5. Get out of bash (so that cygwin.dll is not busy and update new dll):
cp winsup/new-cygwin.dll /usr/local/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/cygwin.dll
You now have a working build of gcc for i386-pc-cygwin32. Now, 'cp -p' will
work as expected (it did not because of a bug in utimes() in cygwin.dll).
The 'touch -f' still does not work because someone had thought fit to ignore
the '-f' flag despite parsing and accepting it.
Questions:
a: Does anyone know where else in the distribution should one look for work
arounds for the utimes() bug (now that I got utimes() and related routines
to do the right thing)?
b: I can get fileutils-3.1.4 to compile but the new 'cp' somehow truncates
all files it copies (as if the stat/lstat returned the wrong size). Has
anyone tried this?
c: Has anyone done any cross development environment build using the cygnus
port? I am about to do a couple of ports (mainly mircos/embedded systems)
and would like to know of experiences).
I got bison-1.2.5, rcs-5.7 etc to work properly (so it seems for now). Is
there any indication of what I should and should not work in this release as
it stands?
Cheers
Jaya
PS Would the people at cygnus make a new release available with the utimes()
fixed -- the port is really difficult to use (with rcs etc) without this.
Thanks.
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