Can't build cygwin from CVS: configure error

Micha Nelissen M.Nelissen@student.tue.nl
Fri Oct 10 19:42:00 GMT 2003


Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:

>>From: Micha Nelissen
>>Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 2:58 PM
> 
> 
> May I guess that you did the same as I did, i.e. follow the instructions on
> cvs page... Then you need THIS information too:

I used the "How do I rebuild the tools on my NT box?" instructions. I 
have installed the source in my home directory: ~/src/cygwin/src. I am 
building from ~/src/cygwin/obj with '../src/configure 
--prefix=~/cygwin-install && make'

> from http://cygwin.com/contrib.html
> <QUOTE>
> _Building the development version of Cygwin_
> 
> Note that minimally, the top-level source tree needs to contain:
> 
> Makefile.in, config, config-ml.in, config.guess, config.sub, configure,
> configure.in, include, install-sh, libiberty, ltconfig, ltmain.sh, missing,
> move-if-change, newlib, symlink-tree, winsup, ylwrap.
> <END>

Ok, got these.

> ... and note that "/src/configure" in the FAQ seems to reference this -^
> configure.

Sorry, seems to reference what?

Thanks very much for your reply,

Micha.


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