Help! Can't get B20 to build

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Gerry Weaver <gerryw@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am having some trouble building the B20 release. I have done the
> following;
> 
> My machine is a pentium II 300 w/ Windows NT 4 SP3
> 
> 
> 1. Installed the binary image of cygwin B20
> 2. Downloaded and untarred dev-src_tar
> 3. Executed a cygwin console (shell)
> 4. Changed directory to the src directory

And this is your downfall.  It is a know FAQ that you cannot configure in the
src directory for cygwin.  You should create a directory in the parent to src
named E.G. build and run the configure in that directory giving the appropriate
prefix and srcdir parameters.



=====
Earnie Boyd < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com >
Cygwin Newbies, please visit
< http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html >
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com