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John Wiersba wrote: > As Brian Keener implied in his email, I don't really want to spend a huge > amount of time just getting setup to successfully build the source, before I > can even start to contribute. I routinely build perl and quite a few GNU > packages on AIX, SunOS, HP/UX and linux, but all of them build relatively > cleanly out-of-the-box with only minor tweaking. I think part of this is as Chris stated - maybe I over mystified some of the problems I had/have and the step involved in being a contributor or maybe it was/is my total lack of C++ programming on any platform and cygwin knowledge before getting started. As a total newcomer to C++ that found Cygwin very appealing and not having worked with anything using a make or a makefile since a little bit of C work - getting started on Cygwin was a challenge. I guess I just bit off too much to start with - I was interested and I looked at the code and thought I could work with it and make some contributions - so I did, but coming from nothing it was tough and in some case I do but I still do not understand. At any rate - from what it sounds like your knowledge level is - you will have no problems. Also as Chris pointed out in his response to me - once it is configured properly then there is really no need for the gyrations and the reconfiguring I seem to go through and as well as we all say - being on Win95 for me does not help. I don't think I am there yet as far as setup properly but I do get closer all the time. > Version of cygwin: > 1) Download all source for all cygwin packages using setup.exe > 2) Install all source > 3) Run some master script to loop through all the source packages and > build them binary-image packages > 4) Install the binary-image packages into a test directory > 5) Exit all cygwin processes > 6) Run a version of cygwin.bat which points to the test directory to test > it out. You really need a step (.5) here - in order to build the cygwin and the other sources you have to have installed the binaries for cygwin and some of the other packages first. This is probably understood but I thought I would point it out. bk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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