Re: FAQ on installing a build from source ?

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

fred wrote:
> I assume  $make install
>
> ok? but something gone wrong,
> so manually what is supposed to get copied where ?
>
> dir \i686-pc-cygwin\winsup\cygwin
> has a cygwin0.dll,
>
> I thought there is supposed to be a cygwin1.dll.................
>
> I thought surely there is a FAQ on this ? haven;t found it though

So you missed this

<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin>

from here

> FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

?

My WAG is that you're building in the source directory which, as the FAQ
says, is a no-no.

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