On 1/18/06, 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.
I think I'd tried to come up with a list before but never figured it out since I'd long ago installed what was needed. Is this a complete enough list? gcc make binutils cocom dejagnu This might even be worth adding to a winsup/README file. > . 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. OK, I'll fix that. -- 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/
