On Jan 18 18:28, Cliff Hones wrote: > It's rather a long time since I tried building my own cygwin from CVS. With > the new release out, I thought I'd give it a try, as I imagine HEAD is very > close to 1.5.19-2. I followed the instructions in the FAQ: > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin > > A few comments: > > . 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. > > . The FAQ info describing how to run the tests is wrong. It worked for > me when I ran "make check" in the i686-pc-cygwin/winsup subdirectory of > my build directory. > > . When I ran the tests, I got five unexpected failures (devdsp, > msgtest, pthread-cancel1, semtest and shmtest). Is this to > be expected :-). > > Could I suggest the FAQ is updated?
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