X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:16:03 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Building Cygwin from CVS Message-ID: <20060127061603.GB14661@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <43CE88C6 DOT 3070009 AT hones DOT org DOT uk> <43D12B2C DOT 23DD92C8 AT dessent DOT net> <20060126091207 DOT GS8318 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20060126184423 DOT GA304 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20060126191421 DOT GC8318 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 09:52:34PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >On 1/26/06, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >>OK, the full text of winsup/README is now: >> >>THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED >>WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF >>MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. >> >>Cygwin documentation is available on the net at http://cygwin.com You >>might especially be interested in >> >>http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin > >I forgot to mention, I also pointed the FAQ link in cvs.html directly >there, and simplified the FAQ entry so it should be more >straightforward for first-timers. (For example, I got rid of the "how >to use tar on a src tarball" since I doubt people who can't figure out >tar should be building Cygwin. Or at least they should be doing it >from CVS!) A minor nit: The text is wrong about needing cocom "if you want to run tests". cocom is used to regenerate devices.cc from devices.in so it should be listed along with gcc, make, and perl. I can only imagine the total brain meltdown of some hapless user who has managed to check the sources out of CVS and figured out how to install gcc, make, and perl only to be thwarted days/weeks/37-reinstalls later by the unguessable obstacle of requiring cocom. 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/