Problem compiling cygwin1.dll from CVS

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:52:51AM +0100, Gabriel SOUBIES wrote:
>I finally managed to re-build Cygwin, and your hint helped me a lot!
>The problem was that i was downloading the sources using Cygwin's CVS
>on a machine where Cygwin had been installed in NT mode (not by me).
>Then I burned the sources and tried to compile on my machine, where
>Cygwin is installed in Unix mode.  I had Cygwin reinstalled in Unix
>mode on the machine I used for downloading and that solved everything.
>Maybe a note about this problem could be added to the FAQ page named
>"How do I rebuild the tools on my NT box?" ...

Nope.  I routinely build cygwin with text mode mounts with no problems
at all.  I don't know why you were having problems but we're certainly
not going to document a bug.

cgf

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