Hi! I'm currently trying to rebuild the Cygwin core package (i.e. cygwin-1.5.10-3.tar.bz2) from the cygwin-1.5.10-3-src.tar.bz2 package because I patched a small detail in cygwin.dll. I'd really like to use Cygwin's setup.exe to install my changed version and so I'm trying to produce the binary packages as delivered by cygwin.com normally.
I found "How do I rebuild the tools on my NT box?" in the FAQs and used it as a starting point. Now I can compile the tools and do "make install" to another directory, but the structure there looks completely different than that seen in the binary package cygwin-1.5.10-3.tar.bz2. It also seems that this tree also contains files which belong to the mingw-runtime and w32api packages normally (but which bring along their own source packages??). So now my question is: what exactly is the process used for building the "official" cygwin core binary packages? Should I replace the cygwin, mingw-runtime and w32api packages all at once to have a clean new Cygwin? I learned from http://cygwin.com/setup.html#package_contents that there should be a description telling the user how to rebuild a package, but I can't find it for the cygwin package itself. Any help or hint is greatly appreciated... -- Bye, Gernot Hillier CT SE 2 Siemens AG, Mch P -- 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/
