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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: "peter garrone" <pgarrone AT linuxmail DOT org>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <20030825073026 DOT 26765 DOT qmail AT linuxmail DOT org>
Subject: Re: problem compiling cygwin, make fails in winsup/cygwin
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 10:49:03 +0100
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peter garrone wrote:
> Hi,
>  I am attempting to build cygwin from source.
>  The make fails in i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/cygwin, error is
> make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib/w32api/Makefile', needed by
`/lib/'. Stop.
...
> To reach this, i did the following
> 1) Untared cygwin-1.3.22-1-src.tar.bz2 in /usr/local/src of a cygwin
computer.
> 2) created and entered a parallel build directory, cygwin_build.
> 3) entered the command:
../cygwin-1.3.22-1/configure --prefix=/usr/local/cygwin
> 4) then went make
>
> Where am I doing wrong? Are there any instructions for this?

1.3.x tarballs were slightly broken. They are supposed to use your installed
copy of w32api and mingw-runtime, but they don't do it quite right. The
workaround is to place untarred w32api source at winsup/w32api, and untarred
mingw-runtime source at winsup/mingw.

Max.


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