Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/06/03/07:56:04
Well, I don't want to give the list a flow of conciousness on this
thing, but I will note that you can avoid the linux packages my setting
up a ~/.mknetrel file as a shell script that defines build_config_opts.
By default, it explicitly sets the build system to be a linux box.
Also, you can set a series of variables like build_cxx, build_cc,
build_ranlib, etc rather than creating the i686-cygwin symbolic links.
And lastly, I was wrong about /netrel, it is a default, not hardcoded.
Anyway, some of this was added within the last few days.
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 05:33:25AM -0400, linguist-cygwin AT rich-paul DOT net wrote:
> Here are some observations of building cygwin1.dll with the mknetrel
> package. I have not yet looked enough at the innards to be able to
> document how to add an 'extras' file, which is how mknetrel overrides
> the normal build procedure for some packages. All in all, it looks like
> a pretty elegant package made up mostly of shell scripts, which
> themselves are made up mostly of shell functions. It may be copied into
> the FAQ or anywhere else you may like. There's even a company in Oragon
> that will print in onto a roll of toilet paper for you. ;-> If it
> doesn't end up on the official web, I'll probably just throw it on my
> site.
>
>
> For testing of this script, I made a fresh install with setup, and
> installed the following packages:
>
> ash bash binutils bzip2 crypt
> cvs cygwin diffutils ed fileutils
> findutils gawk gcc gdbm grep
> gzip libbz2_1 libintl1 libncurses5 libncurses6
> libpng libreadline4 libreadline5 make mingw-runtime
> pcre *perl sed sh-utils tar
> terminfo *tetex-beta texinfo textutils *getopt
>
> This appears to be close to the minimum set. Perl may not be needed.
> tetex-beta really isn't needed, it is installed just for readlink. The
> command, I think, could be replaced with:
>
> | #!/usr/bin/perl
> | $x = readlink $ARGV[0];
> | exit 1 unless defined $x;
> | print $x, "\n";
> | exit 0;
>
> or maybe
> |#!/bin/bash
> |find "$1" -type l -maxdepth 0 -printf '%l\n'
>
>
> getopt is not a cygwin package. My copy came out of a copy of smail on
> my linux box, it's PD from AT&T, and compiled out of the box on cygwin.
> It could probably be replaced with a shell script/function.
>
> After installing the system, and adding getopt, the following script was
> sufficient to build cygwin; it ended up in a lovely tarball in
> /netrel/uploads.
>
> |PATH=/netrel/mknetrel/bin:/bin
> |cd /bin
> |for name in c++ ar ranlib g++ dlltool as windres nm strip; do
> | do ln -s $name i686-pc-cygwin-$name
> |done
> |cd /
> |mkdir netrel
> |cd netrel
> |cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs AT sources DOT redhat DOT com:/cvs/cygwin-apps co
> |mknetrel
> |mkdir src inst build uploads extra
> |cd src
> |
> |tar -xjf $SETUPDIR/release/cygwin/*-src.tar.bz2
> |tar -xjf $SETUPDIR/release/mingw-runtime/*-src.tar.bz2
> |tar -xjf $SETUPDIR/release/w32api/*-src.tar.bz2
> |
> |cd cygwin*/winsup
> |rm -fr mingw cinstall w32api
> |ln -s /netrel/src/mingw-runtime-*/ mingw
> |ln -s /netrel/src/w32api-*/ w32api
> |
> |cd /netrel
> |mknetrel cygwin 2>&1 | tee mknetrel.cygwin.out
>
> Notes:
> * The first time you connect to the CVS server, you're going to
> have to do a cvs login
>
> * mknetrel has hardcoded absolute paths. your build tree must be
> in /netrel exactly.
>
> * mknetrel, it appears, can build most but not all cygwin
> packages. vim, for example, looses, because the build must be
> done in the src directory. It looks like an 'extras' script
> could be produced to accomidate vim, either with a link tree (I
> seem to recall the vim build supports this) or some other hack.
>
> * On my production system, I had to change the '#!/bin/sh' to
> '#!/bin/bash' on one of the mknetrel shell scripts
> to get the shell to accept the usage of getopts ... but on the
> fresh install, I did not. (This is the bash getopts builtin,
> not the standalone and singular 'getopt' discussed above)
>
> * The fact that mknetrel uses i686-pc-cygwin-xxx as it's tools
> during the build implies that it may work with a cross compiler
> as well, or may have been developed to cross compile. I haven't
> yet had time to prove this.
>
> * I use wildcards in some places to avoid explicitly stating
> package versions. The drawback to this approach is that it will
> break in the presence of dup package versions.
>
> * Some of my test builds produced a linux version of libiberty as
> an added bonus. I don't know why, but it didn't seem to hurt
> anything
>
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