Building cygwin

[smr xxxx]

Oh, I'm trying to do this under Cygwin -- this is the correct
approach, yes, rather than having to build on Linux?

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:09 AM, smr xxxx <smrxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to diagnose a problem with fstat and lseek not working as
> expected with stdin on Vista Enterprise SP1.
>
> Anyway, I've grabbed the src package via setup.exe, and am trying to
> build, with no luck so far.  I've tried the instructions in the
> included README (./configure ; make ; make install) and also those in
> the FAQ (http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin).
>  Using the FAQ instructions I get an error about non-existence of c++,
> so I tried "CXX=g++ /oss/src/configure" instead, and it gets me
> further but fails on trying to find awk (at least I think the compile
> error below is due to not having found awk in the prior step).  I've
> tried AWK=gawk but it didn't help.
>
> Can anyone offer any instructions on how to build cygwin?  All I'm
> interested in doing right now is adding some printf's to fstat to work
> out what's going wrong.
>
>
>
> g++ -L/oss/build/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup
> -L/oss/build/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/cygwin
> -L/oss/build/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/w32api/lib -isystem /oss/src/winsup/include
> -isystem /oss/src/winsup/cygwin/include -isystem /oss/src/winsup/w32api/include
> -B/oss/build/i686-pc-cygwin/newlib/ -isystem
> /oss/build/i686-pc-cygwin/newlib/ta
> rg-include -isystem /oss/src/newlib/libc/include -c -nostdinc++
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>  -O2 -g -O2  -MMD -fomit-frame-pointer -fmerge-constants -ftracer  -Wall -Wstri
> ct-aliasing -Wwrite-strings -fno-common -pipe -fbuiltin -fmessage-length=0  -I.
> -I/oss/src/winsup/cygwin  -I/oss/src/winsup/w32api/include -I/oss/src/winsup/cy
> gwin/config/i386 -I/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/include -fno-rtti
> -fno-exce
> ptions -o ./cygtls.o /oss/src/winsup/cygwin/cygtls.cc
> /bin/sh /oss/src/winsup/cygwin/cygmagic child_info_magic.h "gcc
> -L/oss/build/i68
> 6-pc-cygwin/winsup -L/oss/build/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/cygwin
> -L/oss/build/i686-p
> c-cygwin/winsup/w32api/lib -isystem /oss/src/winsup/include -isystem
> /oss/src/wi
> nsup/cygwin/include -isystem /oss/src/winsup/w32api/include
> -B/oss/build/i686-pc
> -cygwin/newlib/ -isystem /oss/build/i686-pc-cygwin/newlib/targ-include -isystem
> /oss/src/newlib/libc/include -x c" /oss/src/winsup/cygwin/child_info.h
> CHILD_INF
> O_MAGIC 'class child_info'
> /oss/src/winsup/cygwin/cygmagic: line 27: awk: command not found
> *** WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING ***
> *** /oss/src/winsup/cygwin/child_info.h: magic number for
> CHILD_INFO_MAGIC chang
> ed old 0xc3a86a0bU != new
> *** WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING ***
> g++ -L/oss/build/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup
> -L/oss/build/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/cygwin
> -L/oss/build/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/w32api/lib -isystem /oss/src/winsup/include
> -isystem /oss/src/winsup/cygwin/include -isystem /oss/src/winsup/w32api/include
> -B/oss/build/i686-pc-cygwin/newlib/ -isystem
> /oss/build/i686-pc-cygwin/newlib/ta
> rg-include -isystem /oss/src/newlib/libc/include -c -nostdinc++
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>  -O2 -g -O2  -MMD  -fmerge-constants -ftracer  -Wall -Wstrict-aliasing -Wwrite-
> strings -fno-common -pipe -fbuiltin -fmessage-length=0  -I.
> -I/oss/src/winsup/c
> ygwin  -I/oss/src/winsup/w32api/include
> -I/oss/src/winsup/cygwin/config/i386 -I/
> usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/include -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -o ./dcrt0.o
> /oss/src/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc
> /oss/src/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc: In function `child_info*
> get_cygwin_startup_inf
> o()':
> /oss/src/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc:595: error: expected
> primary-expression before '
> )' token
> make[3]: *** [dcrt0.o] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/oss/build/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/cygwin'
> make[2]: *** [cygwin] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/oss/build/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup'
> make[1]: *** [all-target-winsup] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/oss/build'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>