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Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 15:41:31 -0400
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From: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT home DOT com>
Subject: Re: "shouted down", "shot down", apologies
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I know: This is a week old.  I'm just playing catchup.

At 6/27/01 05:39 PM (Wednesday), Brian Keener wrote:
>I am probably going to jump into this now without intending to but this 
>really
>does not answer his question - sorry Chris and I am not aiming this at you
>Chris - This is simply an observation. He asked:
>
> >> So, if I want be able to rebuild all the cygwin packages, can I do 
> that from
> >> source downloaded with setup.exe?  Can someone recommend a convenient 
> way of
> >> building a "test cygwin" from that source which can be switched to (via a
> >> change to cygwin.bat) to try out changes?  Or do I really have to go 
> the cvs
> >> route and work with the latest/greatest bleeding-edge packages?  If csv is
> >> the only/best way, does someone have a cookbook which will allow me to 
> setup
> >> a test environment, refresh the source, build everything, make a change,
> >> test it out, submit a patch -- all while keeping a working cygwin
> >> environment built off of setup.exe's download?
>
>As someone who is trying to learn C++ and never really worked with it much 
>and
>as a contributor to the Cygwin project by contributing to setup.exe these are
>questions that I and many others have asked before at various times.  I have
>read the above links before and probably missed where the answers to John's
>questions were located but as far as I can tell there isn't a lot to get
>someone going on contributing to Cygwin.  Or let me say there is a not a 
>lot if
>you are inexperienced in cvs, cygwin, C++, gcc, make as they are used in this
>environment. I have essentially pieced together from various sources (you 
>Chris
>and Earnie and Dj and whole lot of others) and reading the man pages and 
>asking
>very pointed questions just enough to be able to make changes, compile and 
>test
>them and then submit them.

Having done all those things, pieced together the information, etc --- 
perhaps you would be so good as to write a wee bit of a document that could 
be referenced from the "Contributing" page?

It might not be a "cookbook," but friendly tips are almost never unwelcome.



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