Mail Archives: cygwin/1999/07/12/13:26:52
--- David Starks-Browning <starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> This is cygwin B20.1 with 1999-01-15 snapshot of cygwin1.dll, on
> NT4/SP5. Trying to build bash-2.03 (release).
>
> Background: Now that I am trying to get "real work done" in bash under
> cygwin, I can no longer tolerate that bash cannot read its
> .bash_history file. (I have, and wish to keep, text != binary
> mounts under cygwin.)
>
> I thought I could apply Mark Levedahl's patch (Ref:
> <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/1999-05/msg00638.html>) to
> bash-2.03. I thought I had read elsewhere that bash builds
> out-of-the-box on cygwin, but I got almost nowhere:
>
> > ./configure
> > -----------
> > creating cache ./config.cache
> > configure: error: can not run ./support/config.sub
>
> Has anyone else built bash-2.03 successfuly for cygwin? Is there
> something special I need to do, or should I start looking for problems
> in my cygwin setup? (I've built other gnu software in the past
> without difficulty.)
>
I just last week successfully built bash-2.03 and had not one bit of problem.
However I did _not_ run the configure script in the source directory. My
standard is to have this directory structure:
/prj/src/bash-2.03
/prj/obj/bash-2.03
Then I
cd /prj/obj/bash-2.03
/prj/src/bash-2.03/configure --prefix=/install/bash-2.03
--srcdir=/prj/src/bash-2.03
make
> Thanks for your help.
You're welcome,
===
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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