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RE: [Mingw-users] A little OT, but what the...
- To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>, mingw-users at lists dot sourceforge dot net, cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: RE: [Mingw-users] A little OT, but what the...
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 07:37:51 -0500
> Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
> > --- Jeff Sturm <jeff.sturm@appnet.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > No problem. (Can mingw build xfree86 yet? I know there
> was a cygwin
> > > project...)
> > >
> >
> > I would think that to be a real chore.
The first task should be getting imake right, once that is there
patching libs and programs code should be easy, though time consuming.
>Cygwin doesn't
> build it cleanly yet.
> > It takes me two to three hours to do the whole of xc but
> some executables don't
> > make for some reason or another.
Which executables! Everything SHOULD build.
>I haven't investigated
> yet. One of the
> > headaches is that when I do `make World' it does a `make
> clean' by default and
> > I haven't figured out how not to do that yet.
You do not need to do a make World every time. You can do
make Makefiles then make makedepends from top level
directory. It will not run make clean.
Suhaib
> >
>
> Earnie
>
> FWIW, After my initial Make world, I go into the top level
> Makefile and comment out
> the make clean and make makefiles..
> You can also do a 'make all' or 'make includes' or whatever
> individually. The
> 'make World' is annoying as hell.
>
> John
>
>
>
>
> >
> > Alright, this has gotten a bit more than a little OT. ;)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > =====
> > Earnie Boyd
> > mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
> >
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