X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:59:18 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: configure error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in ../.. "../../winsup/cygwin"/../.. Message-ID: <20100727235918.GC4000@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4C448319.3010806@gmail.com> <20100719170741.GA25807@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20100719172555.GB25807@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20100727190406.GB3387@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 03:53:32PM -0400, Ryan McLeod wrote: >The reason for it, was I initially had issues trying to install >openswan into cygwin. Openswan is supposed to support installation on >cygwin. I was then instructed to cross compile openswan for cygwin on >linux to try and get it to work. And i was told to look at the >cross-compiler doc in the openswan package on how to do that. Which >told me to get winsup and build it so I would have a compiler on Linux >to build openswan for cygwin. But thats when i ran into the issues >above. Ok. Sorry that I haven't been paying attention. It seems like very bad advice to suggest that someone cross-build a cygwin application from linux. It doesn't make a lot of sense. >You mention packages that come with a cygwin installation to compile a >program to be used on cygwin. Mind giving me a rough idea on how to do >that? If you want to build on/for cygwin then you need to download things like gcc, make, binutils and probably other things that I haven't thought of. There was a recent discussion about this: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-07/msg00358.html cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple