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From: "Sean Champ" <symmetry_web AT email DOT msn DOT com>
To: "Cygwin-general" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Collecting info about porting
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 12:45:15 -0800
Organization: The Symmetry Net
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as salaem 'alekum.


i have started to work towards compiling some docs for Cygwin, an extension
of the currently available info, to be put into the microsoft html-help
format (as a note, a java-applet interface is available for this, so non-win
systems should be able to use the docs as well).

I want to include tips on what special directives need to be set, in order
to compile things with the cygwin version of the gnu utils.

If you can send me anything about compiler-flags that should be set, or
anything else that could help a "newbie" with compiling things to work with
Cygwin, I will note it, with the email address of the sender, and any name
that is supplied.

an example of the XML DTD that I am using to manage this project is
attatched to this email.

  you don't have to use any XML in sending info for this, bare text will be
fine :)

but this attatchment might show what I'm meaning about what I'm asking for,
if there is some ambiguity.



baraka Allah feek.


--Sean Champ



<postscript>

  If there are any questions about copyright-issues, or how a helpdoc
package such as this will be licensed, please contact me directly at
cud AT crosswinds DOT net or symmetry_web AT email DOT msn DOT com , or via the ICQ number
37515585 .

(ICQ is probably the most reliable, from how broken MSN has been seeming, at
times.  I won't say here why I'm stuck with them, for now ;)

  I plan on making it freely available, of course! :)    and anything other
than that I will not say, unless you contact me directly with any relevant
questions ;)

(I am still learning to navigate the legal minefield that we have made.)

</postscript>



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<Advisory>

<DocInfo>
  <Summary>
    Help with compiling software for Cygwin.
  </Summary>

  <KEYWORDS>
    Cygwin, Port, Gnu, Linux, Unix, Compile, GCC, EGCS
  </KEYWORDS>
</DocInfo>



<Quote>
  <Reference type=3D"WebDoc">
   <URL>
    http://cygutils.netpedia.net/B20/index.html
   </URL>

   <Title>
     Cygutils :: Utilities for Cygwin :: B20 Legacy Branch
   </Title>

   <Date>
     19 Thw al-Qi`dah, 1420 Hijri
     (2/25/2000 C.E.)
   </Date>
  </Reference>

  <Content>
  <H3><U>
    A few notes that apply to all cygwin-perl ports:
  </U></H3>
     <UL>
       <LI>If you decide to download the original source code from =
cpan.org,
           and use  the patches provided here, you need to make sure =
that=20
	   you set the CYGWIN environment variable to include 'binmode'.=20
	   Otherwise, patch.exe will give really strange errors when you=20
	   attempt to patch.=20

       <LI>Make sure, if '.' is in your path, that it does not precede=20
           /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin when building perl. Otherwise,=20
	   when you 'make install', the file &lt;perl-src&gt;/INSTALL=20
	   will be executed instead of /usr/bin/install, thanks to=20
           the case-insensitivity of the windows file system. </LI>=20
     </UL>
  </Content>
 </Quote>


 </Advisory>


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