Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/10/18/08:52:58
--- DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
> > > Easy patch - feel free to try changing it yourself; you might surprise
> > > yourself ;-)
> >
> > Hmmm, I thought setup.exe was a windows-API program, so I didn't even think
> > of trying to fix it. Is it buildable under cygwin? How can I get
> setup.exe
> > to install the source (for any of the cygwin sub-packages)?
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/cvs.html
>
> You'll have to build it all the first time, which takes a while, but
> after that you'll only have to build src/winsup/cinstall.
>
Just a reminder, you must configure and build in an empty directory, not in the
src directory. The make process takes me about 30 minutes. I haven't timed
the configure so I don't know how long that takes.
> Yes, it builds with cygwin. I build it that way all the time.
>
As do I.
Cheers,
=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
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