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Re: Building Cygwin from CVS
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:46:11 -0800
- Subject: Re: Building Cygwin from CVS
- References: <43CE88C6.3070009@hones.org.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Cliff Hones wrote:
> . It would be useful to mention in the FAQ which packages need to be installed
> to perform the build. I expect everyone will realise make, gcc, binutils etc.
> are required, but I found I needed cocom (for shilka) which I'd not come across
> before, and dejagnu in order to run the tests.
Since the generated devices.cc is stored in CVS you shouldn't need
shilka unless you modify devices.{in.h}.
> . When I ran the tests, I got five unexpected failures (devdsp,
> msgtest, pthread-cancel1, semtest and shmtest). Is this to
> be expected :-).
I would expect them to fail if you don't have cygserver installed and
running.
Brian
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