Re: Help!Unable to compile 1.3.22-1 sources

["Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>]

Vishal Jain wrote:
> I had tried using the same steps mentioned below except that I didn't get
> the mingw separately.
> I am able to build w32api.
> It is failing in winsup/utils for me.

Well, try the steps I mention exactly, because my test build just completed
OK.

Max.


> Vishal
>
>
>> From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
>> To: "Vishal Jain" <vxj45 at hotmail dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
>> Subject: Re: Help!Unable to compile 1.3.22-1 sources
>> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 23:44:18 +0100
>>
>> Vishal Jain wrote:
>>> Thanks for looking into the problem.
>>> We need to get a stable version of cygwin to start with. Hence
>>> getting latest from CVS is not a good idea.
>>
>> Hmm. When I try building 1.3.22-1 from the tarball, I get the rather
>> perplexing error message:
>>
>> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib/w32api/Makefile',
>>     needed by `/lib/'.  Stop.
>>
>> But I can't figure out why make wants to make /usr/lib/w32api/Makefile.
>>
>>
>> I suggest the following workaround. I haven't tested it, but intuition
>> suggests it should work. Here it is:
>>
>> tar jxvf path/to/cygwin-1.3.22-1-src.tar.bz2
>> cd cygwin-1.3.22-1/winsup/
>> tar jxvf path/to/w32api-2.3-1-src.tar.bz2
>> mv w32api-2.3-1 w32api
>> tar jxvf path/to/mingw-runtime-2.4-1-src.tar.bz2
>> mv mingw-runtime-2.4-1 mingw
>> cd ../..
>> mkdir cygbuild
>> cd cygbuild
>> ../cygwin-1.3.22-1/configure
>> make
>>
>>
>>
>> Max.
>>
>
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