Re: Compiling the current CVS of XFree86 with Cygwin

[Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite dot demon dot co dot uk>]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 08:08:00AM -0400, John Fortin wrote:
> > 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.
> 
The mount is definately in binmode, if I do a 'mount' it shows that Flags as
'binmode'

As for CVS. I'm actually mounting the drive over samba from a linux server
and I'd checked out the tree under linux's CVS, so I know the tree is o.k.

But, maybe cygwin can't handle networked drives ?

Alan.