Building a snapshot ("Not an ELF file" error)

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Wed Nov 6 15:04:00 GMT 2013


On 11/6/2013 9:35 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
>> We don't support building within the source dir.
>
> That's unclear to me.  I just did "./configure" then "make" at
> the top snapshot directory.  AFAICT, the build result was stored
> under ./i868-pc-cygwin.

See the FAQ: <http://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin>
That should clarify what not building in the source directory means.


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