X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4C8007CA.1050109@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:23:38 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100806 Fedora/3.1.2-1.fc13 Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: .exe magic in Cygwin References: <4C7FFE28 DOT 1010808 AT redhat DOT com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 09/02/2010 02:06 PM, Al wrote: > I first compiled coreutils without the cygwin patch. It did compile > but afterwards the compilation of findutils, etc. was broken. For > example configure.status of wget was truncated at the top and out of > order at the bottom. That stopped all further efforts of mine. > > Now I applied that big patch. How? The only supported way of building coreutils for cygwin is by using setup.exe to download the sources and several prerequisite tools (cygport, autoconf, ...), then using 'cygport coreutils-8.5-1 prep make'. Other ways work, but I won't support them on this list. See also /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/coreutils.README. > > copy.c complaints an error of an undefined reference ot > 'cygwin_spelling'. Guess that is a library I have to install. Sounds like you didn't run autoreconf (which would have been done automatically via the supported mechanism). -- Eric Blake eblake AT redhat DOT com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple