Mail Archives: cygwin/2010/08/07/16:46:28
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
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> It's possible, sure. I expect it's pretty obvious where you might want to
> make such a change in mkpasswd.c if you're so inclined.
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Inclined is FAR from the issue.
I've tried to build cygwin at least 3 times and never been able to get it to make.
It's a non-starter. There are no build instructions laying out what is needed to build it. There seems to be some presumption about what I have in my environment, that just isn't so. I mentioned it each time, but received no response -- as though I'm just expected to know -- which is the same problem -- assumption of some environment that I don't have.
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>> Or are there other programs in windows that would try to print out the same
>> information?
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>> I.e. say some variant of the "net" or "netsh" commands"? On linux, I can try
>> debugging with the 'net' command and it's various outputs, but I don't know
>> what I'd use here to do the same.
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> I'm sure. The APIs in use aren't only for Cygwin. I don't know of any
> utility that you can use, off the top of my head, that would provide better
> insight than debugging through the code.
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I tried a trace (and printed in my last report) of mkpasswd -- but couldn't even see what syscall it was that was failing! All I got was one of your fellow developer-children that went into some rant about things in my environment that made absolutely no difference to the issue at hand. Purely a waste of time trying to follow his insulting rant advice.
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>> I've tried building things from cygwin before and never had any luck just
>> satisfying the dependencies, so that's been a non-starter for me.
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> Perhaps it's time to try again. In this case anyway, you wouldn't need
> to build more than 'mkpasswd'. Shouldn't be too hard if you're used to
> building any software. Sounds like you've done some of this before but
> I may be misinterpreting.
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I build software on linux all the time.
I check things out from source as well as from tar modules. I rarely
have problems building when the prerequisites are spelled out...like
must have 'foobar- headers (or devel package), or must have 'snorpsnip' util
installed... That wasn't the case when I tried building anything cygwin.
When I asked about any documentation on such prerequisites, I believe I was told I could submit the documentation I needed myself (or some such verbage) -- which I took too mean "go Fiddle yourself".
:-/
I'm willing to try again if anything has improved. But there were also issues about me signing off contracts to Redhat or something -- not something normal to most open source projects...and that was a bit of a put off as well. Has anything changed?
For that matter, does cygwin build on linux, or is that more of a pain?
Since I assume it's a large project, my large build machine is linux, though I've gotten a fairly good Windows machine since last time I tried building. I hope the make is amenable to "make -j"?
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