failed to compile cygwin

[Kevin Mackie]

Hey Gerrit,

> O.k, I didn't build cygwin the last days, there were some changes, maybe
> a bug?  Do you use sources from CVS?

No bug, I just should have RTFF. After installing the source with the setup
program, I naively tried to build it with:
cd /usr/src/cygwin-1.3.3-2
./configure
make

Oops. Seems the right way is something like this:

mkdir cygwin-out
cd cygwin-out
/usr/src/cygwin-1.3.3-2/configure --srcdir=/usr/src/cygwin-1.3.3-2
make

In my own defense I think the README file in /usr/src/cygwin* should make
this explicit. Anyways, the make works like a charm now.

Sorry for wasting your time,
Kevin


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