Building cygwin

[smr xxxx]

alias awk=gawk also didn't help.  I figure I'm doing something
fundamentally wrong, rather than needing to mess with things at this
level.  Any help appreciated.

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:12 AM, smr xxxx <smrxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
>