Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:54:23 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problem compiling cygwin1.dll from CVS Message-ID: <20040115165423.GC14681@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <1074109551 DOT 959 DOT 19 DOT camel AT taz DOT graycell DOT biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:52:51AM +0100, Gabriel SOUBIES wrote: >I finally managed to re-build Cygwin, and your hint helped me a lot! >The problem was that i was downloading the sources using Cygwin's CVS >on a machine where Cygwin had been installed in NT mode (not by me). >Then I burned the sources and tried to compile on my machine, where >Cygwin is installed in Unix mode. I had Cygwin reinstalled in Unix >mode on the machine I used for downloading and that solved everything. >Maybe a note about this problem could be added to the FAQ page named >"How do I rebuild the tools on my NT box?" ... Nope. I routinely build cygwin with text mode mounts with no problems at all. I don't know why you were having problems but we're certainly not going to document a bug. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/