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From: Cliff Hones <cliff AT hones DOT org DOT uk>
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It's rather a long time since I tried building my own cygwin from CVS.  With
the new release out, I thought I'd give it a try, as I imagine HEAD is very
close to 1.5.19-2.  I followed the instructions in the FAQ:
    http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin

A few comments:

  . It would be useful to mention in the FAQ which packages need to be installed
    to perform the build.  I expect everyone will realise make, gcc, binutils etc.
    are required, but I found I needed cocom (for shilka) which I'd not come across
    before, and dejagnu in order to run the tests.

  . The FAQ info describing how to run the tests is wrong.  It worked for
    me when I ran "make check" in the i686-pc-cygwin/winsup subdirectory of
    my build directory.

  . When I ran the tests, I got five unexpected failures (devdsp,
    msgtest, pthread-cancel1, semtest and shmtest).  Is this to
    be expected :-).

Could I suggest the FAQ is updated?

-- Cliff

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