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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 20:30:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boydNOREPLY AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: Help! Can't get B20 to build
To: Gerry Weaver <gerryw AT austin DOT rr DOT com>,
        "cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
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--- Gerry Weaver <gerryw AT austin DOT rr DOT com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am having some trouble building the B20 release. I have done the
> following;
> 
> My machine is a pentium II 300 w/ Windows NT 4 SP3
> 
> 
> 1. Installed the binary image of cygwin B20
> 2. Downloaded and untarred dev-src_tar
> 3. Executed a cygwin console (shell)
> 4. Changed directory to the src directory

And this is your downfall.  It is a know FAQ that you cannot configure in the
src directory for cygwin.  You should create a directory in the parent to src
named E.G. build and run the configure in that directory giving the appropriate
prefix and srcdir parameters.



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