Re: Can't build cygwin from CVS: configure error

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-rcm at cygwin dot com>]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 05:04:59PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
>Sorry Hannu, I meant to send this to the list instead of you personally.
>
>On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
>
>> $ cvs -z3 co winsup
>>
>This gives you everything you need.  I just tested it.

That's because I just fixed it.  When I tried this earlier, there were all
sorts of errors during the checkout.  That was a good clue, to me at least,
that something was wrong.

>> In using the script above, with a /src/src/build as *current* directory, the
>> make phase stops as shown below.
>>
>Please don't use a subdirectory as a build directory.  If your sources are
>in /src, then make your build directory parallel ie. /build.

It shouldn't matter.

>> ../../../../winsup/mingw/include/sys/types.h:119: error: syntax error before
>> "_ssize_t"
>> ../../../../winsup/mingw/include/sys/types.h:119: warning: useless keyword
>> or type name in empty declaration
>> ../../../../winsup/mingw/include/sys/types.h:119: warning: empty declaration
>>
>cvs update.  This was recently broken and then fixed IIRC.

Right.  cvs update is your friend.  Before you report a bug, it makes sense
to check to see if the bug has been fixed already.

cgf

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