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Re: contribution soapbox(was Re: G++ guru's please comment - Re: FW: pthread_create problem in Cygwin 1.1.8-2])


Maybe the attached file will help some who don't work in the /src tree very
often.

I source the file at the start of a bash session and then use the cb_*
functions to do the work.  cb_tail lets me monitor progress in another
window.

The functions assume that all the necessary directories (.../src, .../obj,
.../log, .../install) already exist.

I didn't create the functions until after I had already downloaded my first
copy of the source tree, so I'm not sure if cb_login() works.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 7:54 AM
Subject: Re: contribution soapbox(was Re: G++ guru's please comment - Re:
FW: pthread_create problem in Cygwin 1.1.8-2])


> You are right that this all should be fairly easy.  What seems to be a big
> obstacle for people who are building Cygwin for the first time is the
whole
> issue of setting up a build environment.
>
> What I usually see is that people download only the cygwin sources and
then
> discover that they need more than that.  Or, that they try to build cygwin
> without configuring first or that they configure in the same directory as
> the sources.
>
> In short, it seems like many people who take the plunge are very new to
the
> wonderful world of GNU programming.  These are issues that anyone who
builds
> any of the GNU development tools on any platform has to stumble over but
> somehow the obstacles seem to be bigger for Cygwin.

Possibly because the step to Cygwin user is so low the additional step to
Cygwin compiler seems much higher.  The only surprise for me was building in
a separate tree from the source, but that's probably because nearly all my C
experience in recent years is in Perl XS modules.

init.sh

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