Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000517101503.01b03eb0@pop.jump.net> X-Sender: sunds AT pop DOT jump DOT net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 10:28:22 -0500 To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: David Sundstrom Subject: Help: Building tar from Source with April 17 net release Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed I would like to build the tar-src distribution to fix some problems with gtar giving a "Broken Pipe" error when used with the decompression option (-z). I installed the latest cygwin using "setup". It worked with no problems. I then downloaded tar-src.tar.gz, unpacked, and attempted to run "./configure". First, it complained that it could not guess the host type. I ran configure again, this time as "./configure --host=i586-pc-cygwin". Configure runs through, but at the end the generated configure.status script fails: creating ./config.status sed: file conftest.hdr line 1: Unknown option to 's' creating Makefile sed: file conftest.s1 line 1: Extra characters after command creating doc/Makefile sed: file conftest.s1 line 1: Extra characters after command creating intl/Makefile sed: file conftest.s1 line 1: Extra characters after command creating lib/Makefile sed: file conftest.s1 line 1: Extra characters after command creating po/Makefile.in sed: file conftest.s1 line 1: Extra characters after command creating scripts/Makefile sed: file conftest.s1 line 1: Extra characters after command creating src/Makefile sed: file conftest.s1 line 1: Extra characters after command creating tests/Makefile sed: file conftest.s1 line 1: Extra characters after command creating tests/preset sed: file conftest.s1 line 1: Extra characters after command As an experiment, I copied the config.status file to my Solaris system and it ran fine (after stripping off the MS-DOS carriage returns). Copied the generated Makefile back to my NT machine, and tried to run "make": "D:/cygwin/bin/bash.exe"-2.03$ make gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -I../lib -g -O2 -c arith.c In file included from arith.c:21: common.h:246: parse error before `tape_length_option' common.h:246: warning: data definition has no type or storage class make: *** [arith.o] Error 1 "D:/cygwin/bin/bash.exe"-2.03$ Surely I must be headed down the wrong path here. I would expect the cygnus sources would build quite readily in the cygnus environment. However, looking through the recent archives for this list demonstrates others are having problems as well, with no clear clues as to what the problem is. What am I doing wrong? I will forward the diagnostic output from cygcheck if it will help. Thanks! David Sundstrom -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com