peter garrone wrote: > Hi, > I am attempting to build cygwin from source. > The make fails in i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/cygwin, error is > make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib/w32api/Makefile', needed by `/lib/'. Stop. ... > To reach this, i did the following > 1) Untared cygwin-1.3.22-1-src.tar.bz2 in /usr/local/src of a cygwin computer. > 2) created and entered a parallel build directory, cygwin_build. > 3) entered the command: ../cygwin-1.3.22-1/configure --prefix=/usr/local/cygwin > 4) then went make > > Where am I doing wrong? Are there any instructions for this?
1.3.x tarballs were slightly broken. They are supposed to use your installed copy of w32api and mingw-runtime, but they don't do it quite right. The workaround is to place untarred w32api source at winsup/w32api, and untarred mingw-runtime source at winsup/mingw. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
