1.7 installation failed (on network drive?)

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 08:19:50PM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
>>>>  cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cygwin.com:/cvs/cygwin-apps setup
>>>>  CC=gcc-3 configure
>>>>  make 'CFLAGS=-g'
>>> So I don't need to switch set-gcc-default-3.sh, thanks.
>>> Actually, I already checked out and compiled (after installing a
>>> bunch of dependencies) over night after cgf's pointer to
>>> http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html.
>>> However, I didn't include the -g flag, assuming that leaving out the
>>> final 'strip' step might suffice.
>
>  Only because the default CFLAGS has -g in it; if you do need to override it,
>you must specifiy -g yourself.
>
>> The important thing here is to avoid the default -O2 flag.  It makes
>> debugging a lot harder.
>
>  I'd recommend using CFLAGS='-g3 -O0' myself.  It's worth having the debug
>info level turned right up.

Don't you need to use CXXFLAGS for setup since it's c++?

cgf