Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3B3A6605.C6F2AA0D@nc.rr.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 19:02:29 -0400 From: Greg Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "shouted down", "shot down", apologies References: <03F4742D8225D21191EF00805FE62B9908E23ED9@aa-msg-01.medstat.com> <20010627164651.A24718@redhat.com> <3B3A59FD.FD9D5596@nc.rr.com> <3B3A5BB4.CFB6B26F@nc.rr.com> <3B3A5CD0.885D8F42@nc.rr.com> <3B3A5F4E.F227AB1A@nc.rr.com> <3B3A6352.2FCB685F@nc.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sheesh, another typo, the `tar' in step two shoulda been tar xjvf ../cygwin-src-yyyymmdd.tar.bz2 Though I do sometimes claim that I deliberately introduce errors so as not make things too easy ;-) Oh, and the `v' isn't really needed. I just sorta like to see what is going on... probably for the same reason I distrust scripts and prefer to enter the commands myself. So I'm an anachronism, wanna make something of it ;-P Greg Smith wrote: > > Missed a command in step (2), let me try again > > This is what I do, especially when I'm behind a firewall and > can't get out on the cvs port. > > (1) I get the latest snapshot via ftp from a cygwin mirror site > and put it in the \cygwin directory > (2) I bring up a cygwin window and do: > cd / > rm -Rf src > rm -Rf obj > mkdir src > mkdir obj > cd src > tar jzvf ../cygwin-src-yyyymmdd.tar.bz2 > (3) cd /obj > /src/configure --prefix=/tmp/cygwin && make && make install > and exit the cygwin window > (4) from a windows command prompt I then do > copy \cygwin\tmp\cygwin\bin\* \cygwin\bin\* > (5) Fire up a new cygwin window and run `cygcheck -s' to verify > the snapshot level and build date (which is near the bottom > of the display). > > If there are patches that I want, then I can usually save them > from an attachment in a cygwin or cygwin-patches post, usually > in my \cygwin directory. Usually the patches hit src/winsup/cygwin. > So, before step (3) I do > cd /src/winsup/cygwin > patch < /whatever.patch > > Greg > > > > -- > > 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/ -- 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/