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On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 03:20:55PM +0000, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
>> See the FAQ: <http://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin>
>
>I see, thanks Larry!  There's a Readme file at the top level of
>the snapshot tar ball, which I glanced at, and saw the usual
>"./configure; make" sequence even though now when I looked more
>closely, the file is just something generic to GNU, not particularly
>to CYGWIN.  Not sure what it is doing there -- but certainly not helping
>(esp. for the first-timers)...

I'm not sure how you translate not building in the source directory to
"the configure file is not supposed to be used".

The configure script isn't generic.  It's intended for building Cygwin.

Once again: YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BUILD IN THE SOURCE DIRECTORY.

That means you don't do this:

1) Unpack tarball.

2) cd to unpacked directory.

3) ./configure

You need to create a separate build directory and run configure there.
This is standard GNU stuff.  Nothing Cygwin specific here.

If this is still confusing then you probably shouldn't be attempting to
build from source at all.

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