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Re: Building setup.exe


John Morrison wrote:
> Hi Max,
>
> Please excuse me for writting to you off list, but I
> am trying to compile the setup app.  Again.

You are excused, since I definitely want to help people compile setup, but
I'm redirecting to the list, as this is relevant there, too.

> I've a full installation of Cygwin, then, using
> <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html> as a
> reference...
>
> $ cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/cygwin-apps co setup
> <snip>co messages</snip>
>
> $ cd setup/libgetopt++/
> $ ./bootstrap.sh
> <snip>bootstrap messages</snip>
>
> $ cd ..
> $
>
./configure -C --enable-dependencies --disable-shared --host=i686-pc-mingw32
>  --build=i686-pc-cygwin 'CC=gcc -mno-cygwin'
> 'CXX=g++ -mno-cygwin' --enable-maintainer-mode
> bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
>
> What did I miss out?  Can you help?

It seems the instructions are out of date.
You need to run ./bootstrap.sh in setup (and it will recurse into
libgetopt++).

Robert: May I commit an appropriate re-wording to the webpage?


Max.


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