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Re: how to build cygwin using itself
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:43:57 -0700
- Subject: Re: how to build cygwin using itself
- References: <81B25FE9-8193-4731-8876-B54CED0BDE9D@zooko.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
zooko wrote:
> http://cygwin.com/cvs.html
>
> Which say to check out "winsup".
That's your problem. I'm not sure why that page says that, but just
checking out winsup will give you a tree that can't be used to build
anything.
> Could someone give me a hint as to what other steps are necessary to
> build cygwin using itself?
"cvs co cygwin"
Brian
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