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Re: hate to ask- compiling cygwin1.dll


I do believe that in general, you shouldn't compile cygwin.dll
in the source directory.  create a new subdirectory, called, say build,
and then within build, do a ../configure


On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:47:10 -0500, Peter Buckley wrote:

>I hate to ask this to the list, because I am sure it has been asked 
>before. But I am getting nowhere searching the mailing list archives, 
>and some messages say "find out how to compile the cygwin1.dll at 
>http://cygwin.com";. I can't seem to find out how to do this in the docs 
>or the faq.
>
>Even if someone could suggest some better search terms, it would be a 
>big help.
>
>I have all the source, and have extracted the cygwin source tarball, and 
>it looks like "./configure" is succeeding. But when I do a make, it 
>looks good for awhile and then I get the following error-
>
>make[2]: Entering directory 
>'cygdrive/d/petes-path-to-source/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/cygwin'
>make[2]: *** No rule to make target `all'.  Stop.
>
>There is a symlink to Makefile.in in this directory, and it has an 'all' 
>target. Maybe I need to do some other preparatory steps, like copying 
>the source to a certain directory (not the default place where I 
>extracted it)?
>
>I hope someone could point me in the right direction, even "STMLA again, 
>you just need the 142nd match" or "RTM, search for c-o-m-m-p-i-l-e 
>instead of compile."
>
>TIA,
>Peter
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