Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/05/28/14:03:49
At 01:57 PM 5/28/2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 01:49:38PM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> >At 01:12 PM 5/28/2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:28:04PM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> >> >At 12:03 PM 5/28/2002, rich-paul AT rich-paul DOT net wrote:
> >> >>First, a question for the list: Are problems with building cygwin
> >> >>on-topic for this list? I know y'all don't like custom setups, and
> >> >>custom building may be worse!
> >> >
> >> >I'm not sure what "custom building" means but issues with building the
> >> >Cygwin DLL are on-topic for this list. Generally speaking though, the
> >> >process should be as described in the FAQ entry:
> >> >
> >> >How do I rebuild the tools on my NT box?
> >> >http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC102
> >>
> >>Yeah, but I have a lot of problems with those instructions. I've found
> >>that I generally have to convert all of the C code to Modula 3 and
> >>rewrite the Makefiles as c-shell scripts before I can rebuild anything.
> >>Sometimes I have to hand-compile stuff, too. That's pretty tedious.
> >
> >
> ><humor>
> >I'd direct you to the email list archives but you'd probably be overwhelmed
> >by the number of posts with people saying they do the same thing. Of course
> >when you run into this kind of problem, the best thing to do is send email
> >to this list about it and repeat it many times. Most of the folks on this
> >list that could help you have allot of free time so they prefer to read
> >multiple repeat posts. However, sometimes the best course of action when
> >you encounter a problem like this is to drop back to version B14 of Cygwin.
> >Either that or just use DOS or CPM. These often work much better than the
> >current version of Cygwin. But since you're a newbie, Chris, we can't
> >expect you to know that.
> ></humor>
>
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Sometimes, less is really more! :-)
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