RE: My experience build the 2.6.17 kernel under Cygwin

2007-01-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 09 January 2007 18:42, Gabriel Goldstein wrote: > Can you narrow it down to a tarball containing just a single file? Or > is it > a fairly small tarchive? > -- > File attached for review. It's just a small sample fs from my dev kit > mfg. > -- Heh, if you had answered "yes" to that ques

RE: My experience build the 2.6.17 kernel under Cygwin

2007-01-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 09 January 2007 18:01, Gabriel Goldstein wrote: > 2. Cygwin does not appear to handle the advanced file system mechanics > to support mknod properly. This may be a specific thing to my > situation, but my dev kit had a sample file system. It would not untar > into cygwin without a seg fault.

My experience build the 2.6.17 kernel under Cygwin

2007-01-09 Thread Gabriel Goldstein
First I must say I love Cygwin. I have a few guys here with VM Ware and Redhat for development. I've been reluctant to go down that path because of the resources it takes up. So when it came to my first shot at kernel targeting, I decided to give Cygwin a run. While most everything worked quite