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Re: Compiling the current CVS of XFree86 with Cygwin
- To: "Alan Hourihane" <alanh at fairlite dot demon dot co dot uk>,<cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Compiling the current CVS of XFree86 with Cygwin
- From: "John Fortin" <fortinj at attglobal dot net>
- Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 08:08:00 -0400
- References: <20010406103823.C1197@valinux.com>
> It fails on the top level Makefiles complaining at line 70 of
> xc/programs/Makefile, xc/doc/Makefile, etc. and then refuses to go on
> obviously.
>
> The error message is
> Makefile:70: *** missing separator. Stop.
>
> Now, line 70 says...
>
> !<symlink>../.././programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xf86Version.h
>
> I guess this is something from cygwin to handle symbolic links.
>
> I've trolled the FAQ and the list archives to no avail, so has anyone else
seen
> this, a fix maybe ?
>
I've had this happen when I use text mounts, or a windows (not cygwin)
version of CVS.
Check your mounts and CVS version.
John