Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>
> > I built openssl-0.9.1c under Cygwin/NT; for the most part, it just built,
> > but
>
> > 1. I had to undo all the hardcoded paths in the makefiles (e.g. /bin/rm
> > and /bin/sh)
>
> The /bin/sh is problematic and should be kept for portability reasons. But for
> the /bin/rm I never saw any reasons, so this we can replace with just "rm"
> IMHO.
Note that the Cygwin installation instructions explicitly recommend that the
user creates a /bin directory with a copy of sh.exe therein. This is so that
scripts will work without alteration (surprise, surprise!).
> > 2. use the following Configure "type":
>
> > "gcc-NT","gcc:-DTERMIOS -DL_ENDIAN -fomit-frame-pointer -O3 -m486
>-Wall::BN_LLONG $x86_gcc_des $x86_gcc_opts:",
>
> That's no problem. But it should be better named "Cygnus-NT" to be a little
> bit consistent with the "VC-NT" and "BC-XX" platform names,
There is nothing specific to NT about Cygwin. A better tag might be
'Cygnus-win32',
or just Cygwin32.
Farrell.
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