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Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 13:57:32 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Building cygwin1.dll
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On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 01:49:38PM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>At 01:12 PM 5/28/2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:28:04PM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>> >At 12:03 PM 5/28/2002, rich-paul AT rich-paul DOT net wrote:
>> >>First, a question for the list: Are problems with building cygwin
>> >>on-topic for this list?  I know y'all don't like custom setups, and
>> >>custom building may be worse!
>> >
>> >I'm not sure what "custom building" means but issues with building the
>> >Cygwin DLL are on-topic for this list.  Generally speaking though, the
>> >process should be as described in the FAQ entry:
>> >
>> >How do I rebuild the tools on my NT box?
>> >http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC102
>>
>>Yeah, but I have a lot of problems with those instructions.  I've found
>>that I generally have to convert all of the C code to Modula 3 and
>>rewrite the Makefiles as c-shell scripts before I can rebuild anything.
>>Sometimes I have to hand-compile stuff, too.  That's pretty tedious.
>
>
><humor>
>I'd direct you to the email list archives but you'd probably be overwhelmed
>by the number of posts with people saying they do the same thing.  Of course
>when you run into this kind of problem, the best thing to do is send email
>to this list about it and repeat it many times.  Most of the folks on this
>list that could help you have allot of free time so they prefer to read 
>multiple repeat posts.  However, sometimes the best course of action when 
>you encounter a problem like this is to drop back to version B14 of Cygwin.
>Either that or just use DOS or CPM.  These often work much better than the
>current version of Cygwin.  But since you're a newbie, Chris, we can't 
>expect you to know that.
></humor>

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