X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:53:26 -0800 From: Joshua Daniel Franklin To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Building Cygwin from CVS In-Reply-To: <43CE88C6.3070009@hones.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <43CE88C6.3070009@hones.org.uk> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id k0K4s6Jn015947 On 1/18/06, Cliff Hones wrote: > It's rather a long time since I tried building my own cygwin from CVS. With > the new release out, I thought I'd give it a try, as I imagine HEAD is very > close to 1.5.19-2. I followed the instructions in the FAQ: > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin > > A few comments: > > . It would be useful to mention in the FAQ which packages need to be installed > to perform the build. I expect everyone will realise make, gcc, binutils etc. > are required, but I found I needed cocom (for shilka) which I'd not come across > before, and dejagnu in order to run the tests. I think I'd tried to come up with a list before but never figured it out since I'd long ago installed what was needed. Is this a complete enough list? gcc make binutils cocom dejagnu This might even be worth adding to a winsup/README file. > . The FAQ info describing how to run the tests is wrong. It worked for > me when I ran "make check" in the i686-pc-cygwin/winsup subdirectory of > my build directory. OK, I'll fix that. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/