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Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:49:35 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit AT familiehaase DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin from Scratch?
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Tony Karakashian wrote:

> Fortunately, most of the hard work has been done for existing
> packages.  A CFS "book" would simply require compiling instructions in
> one place as well as patches, etc.  Could be a fun project.

Basically I do nothing but building from scratch.  That is the reason
why I became maintainer for several packages.  However, I'm lazy and
have not enough spare time to always build a package when there is an
update available, so I appreciate that there are other maniacs doing
the same.  I use official Cygwin builds to build release packages,
though.

If there are problems building a new package, the first resource is LFS
or BLFS of course, what else?  So besides LFS is missing some basic
Cygwin packages it is already the best guide available when building new
packages.  Just rename it;)

BTW, do you know which was the last version of gcc which could be build
without having gcc already handy?


Gerrit
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