Building Cygwin from CVS

Brian Dessent brian@dessent.net
Wed Jan 18 18:57:00 GMT 2006


Cliff Hones wrote:

>   . It would be useful to mention in the FAQ which packages need to be installed
>     to perform the build.  I expect everyone will realise make, gcc, binutils etc.
>     are required, but I found I needed cocom (for shilka) which I'd not come across
>     before, and dejagnu in order to run the tests.

Since the generated devices.cc is stored in CVS you shouldn't need
shilka unless you modify devices.{in.h}.

>   . When I ran the tests, I got five unexpected failures (devdsp,
>     msgtest, pthread-cancel1, semtest and shmtest).  Is this to
>     be expected :-).

I would expect them to fail if you don't have cygserver installed and
running.

Brian

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