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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Fw: building from scratch, a cygwin enviroment
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 22:29:39 +1100
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Woops! My turn to send private by mistake.

Rob
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "John Jones" <john AT algor DOT co DOT uk>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: building from scratch, a cygwin enviroment


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Jones" <john AT algor DOT co DOT uk>
> > hey
> >
> > thanks again for the quick response (-;
>
> No probs.
>
> > right I cant use setup.exe from the cygwin env we use VISE to do
> various
> > things (don't flame me that's the way life is I am not interested in
> this)
>
> I'm not going to flame you, I'll stick to pity. Cygwin used to use
VISE
> a long time back, and the custom setup.exe was created to install and
> maintain the mount tree, amongst other things. (I'm not talking about
> the GUI version either). So you've got an uphill battle in front of
you.
>
> > the real thing is collecting all the sources into a tree and
building
> > that source tree
> >
> > so that they can be distributed on a CD
> >
> > I wondered if anyone has done this before and had anything to share
?
>
> Nothing specific, a full CVS checkout of the winsup tree should work
for
> the cygwin1.dll and it's sources, but you'll need to grab all the
> sources for all the other utilities you choose to include. And they
> almost certainly won't build in a single tree, so you'll probably want
> to turn to the BSD ports system for inspiration.
>
> Rob
>


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