how to re-build Cygwin core package?

[Peter Rehley]

Might we be able to update the FAQ with this information?

On Aug 26, 2004, at 11:22 PM, Gernot Hillier wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Am Mittwoch, 25. August 2004 13:07 schrieb Gernot Hillier:
>> how to re-build Cygwin core package?
>
> Just as reference for others - I now did it this way:
>
> 1.	Install Cygwin 2004-06-24, start bash
>
> 2.	Unpack the Cygwin core source package:
>
> tar xvjf /cygdrive/e/release/cygwin/cygwin-1.5.10-3-src.tar.bz2
>
> 3.	Apply the needed patch (from
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2004-q3/msg00039.html):
>
> cd cygwin-1.5.10-3/winsup/cygwin && patch -p0 < /path/to/root.diff
>
> 4.	It's necessary to build Cygwin in an extra path, so create one and 
> change
> to it:
>
> cd ../../.. && mkdir obj && cd obj
>
> 5.	To avoid Cygwin to overwrite the files of your make environment, an 
> install
> prefix is used:
>
> ../cygwin-1.5.10-3/configure --prefix=/fake/usr --sysconfdir=/fake/etc 
> \
>  --libexecdir=/fake/usr/sbin --localstatedir=/fake/var \
>  --datadir=/fake/usr/share --mandir=/fake/usr/share/man \
>  --infodir=/fake/usr/share/info
>
> 6.	Build and install the new Cygwin to the install prefix path given 
> above:
>
> make && make install
>
> 7.	Remove debug symbols from all executables:
>
> cd /fake && find . -type f -exec strip {} \;
>
> 8.	Correct some file locations:
>
> mv  usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/* usr/bin/
> mv  usr/i686-pc-cygwin/lib/* usr/lib/
> rm -rf usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin usr/i686-pc-cygwin/lib usr/etc
> mv  usr/i686-pc-cygwin/* usr/
>
> 9.	Create the w32api package:
>
> tar cjf w32api-20040624-1.tar.bz2 usr/include/w32api usr/lib/w32api
>
> 10.	Remove the files which belong to the w32api package from our tree:
>
> rm -rf /fake/usr/include/w32api /fake/usr/lib/w32api
>
> 11.	Create the mingw-runtime package:
>
> tar cjf mingw-runtime-20040624-1.tar.bz2 usr/bin/mingwm10.dll \
>    usr/doc/mingw-runtime usr/include/mingw usr/lib/mingw
>
> 12.	Remove the files which belong to the w32api package from our tree:
>
> rm -rf /fake/usr/bin/mingwm10.dll /fake/usr/doc/mingw-runtime \
>    /fake/usr/include/mingw /fake/usr/lib/mingw
>
> 13.	Remove files which are distributed with other packages (but are 
> included
> in the cygwin source package for boot-strapping) or should not be 
> distributed
> at all:
>
> rm -rf /fake/usr/include/iconv.h # comes also with libiconv
> rm -rf /fake/usr/include/unctrl.h # comes also with libncurses-devel
> rm -rf /fake/usr/share/info/configure.info-1 # auto-created by info 
> tool
> rm -rf /fake/usr/lib/libiberty.a # comes also with binutils
>
> 14.	Three files were not built and would need extra effort (i.e. 
> compiling
> other libraries be-fore the Cygwin package). Take them from the already
> installed Cygwin distribution:
>
> cp /usr/bin/dumper.exe usr/bin/
> cp /usr/share/info/libc.info usr/share/info/
> cp /usr/share/info/libm.info usr/share/info/
>
> 15.	Finally, the cygwin package itself can be created:
>
> tar cjf cygwin-20040624-1.tar.bz2 etc/ usr/
>
> 16.	Now, the created packages can be moved to the Cygwin installation 
> CD-ROM
> to release/cygwin/, release/mingw-runtime/ and release/w32api/ and the 
> file
> names, sizes and md5sums in setup.ini modified accordingly so that 
> setup.exe
> will in-stall the new core packages in the future.
>
> HTH anyone...
>
> -- 
> Bye,
>
> Gernot Hillier
> CT SE 2
> Siemens AG, Mch P
>
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