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Re: Building setup.exe
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 20:43:37 +0100
- Subject: Re: Building setup.exe
- References: <3F43B089.10804@fangorn.ca>
Mark Blackburn wrote:
> Where are the instructions for building setup? Are they in a FAQ
> somewhere or in the source tree? For that matter how do you figure out
> to get the source from cvs?
>
> I already know some of these answers ie:
> cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/cygwin-apps co setup
> cd setup
> ./bootstrap.sh
> cd ..
> mkdir build
> cd build
> ../setup/configure <I DONT KNOW WHAT GOES HERE>
> make
>
> I figured this much out by stumbling around blindly. I was wondering if
> there was an easy to find reference on cygwin.com somewhere that I can
> use when I forget some of this stuff.
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html
Max.