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From: Michael Wild <themiwi AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 16:44:41 +0200
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Subject: Re: Compiling cygwin1.dll
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On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 06/03/2014 08:57 AM, Michael Wild wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>>>
>>> Greetings, Michael Wild!
>>>
>>>> In order to pinpoint an error I'm trying to compile cygwin1.dll from
>>>> source following the instructions here:
>>>
>>>
>>> My question is: do you actually need to rebuild it, or you just need the
>>> debug
>>> symbols?
>>>
>>>> https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin. However,
>>>> when building binutils, I trip over this error:
>>>> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2014-02/msg00064.html. According to
>>>> DJ (https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2014-02/msg00067.html),
>>>> "attempts to build the old binutils/gdb in CVS are going to be
>>>> doomed". Apparently the development of these packages is now tracked
>>>> in a separate git repo. So, my question is now, how do I get a working
>>>> build for the cygwin DLL? Do I have to replace binutils/gdb in the CVS
>>>> checkout with the git checkout?
>>>
>>>
>>>> How are the current snapshots built?
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks for any pointers in the right direction.
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear Andrey,
>>
>> I really need to build it, in order to pinpoint which commit breaks
>> things.
>
>
> OK but why are you building 'binutils' if you just want to build the Cygwin
> DLL?
>
>
> --
> Larry
>

You tell me. I just checked out the source and followed the
instructions as I said in my first message. When doing so, there is a
dependency and binutils gets built.

If the instructions are outdated, I did something obviously wrong, or
there is a better way, please let me know.

Michael

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