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Re: "shouted down", "shot down", apologies


John Wiersba wrote:

> So, is the "download source" option for setup.exe useful for anything?  Can
> you rebuild (all of) cygwin from it?  What I mean is:  there are these 80+
> packages available with setup.exe.  If I download the source for all of
> them, install the source somewhere, run some build process against it, will
> I end up with a working cygwin which is functionally equivalent to the
> binary packages I downloaded using setup.exe?
> 
> -- John Wiersba

Yes, you can build the tools from the source packages provided as part 
of the downloads.  However, there is no 'make world' procedure that 
builds EVERYTHING all in one step.  You have to go into each package's 
source directory, and do the typical './configure ; make ; make install' 
procedure.  However, to get EXACTLY the same binaries, you'll need to 
use the same configuration options that the maintainer used --

For instance (readline):
   CFLAGS="-I/usr/include/ncurses" \
     ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-curses
   make
   make shared
   make examples
   make test
   make install prefix=/tmp/usr
   make install-shared prefix=/tmp/usr
   make install-examples prefix=/tmp/usr
   strip /tmp/usr/bin/cygreadline5.dll
   strip /tmp/usr/bin/cyghistory5.dll
   (cd /tmp ; tar tvjf readline-X.Y-Z.tar.bz2 usr/)

and now you have a tarball that *should* be the same as the 'official' 
one.  In most cases, the maintainers document their build procedures or 
special config options in /usr/doc/Cygwin/<package>.README

The exception to this is possibly binutils, gcc, cygwin, mingw.  These 
packages are kindof intermingled and cgf uses special buildscripts to 
generate the separate binary tarballs.  I think.

--Chuck



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