how to build cygwin using itself

[zooko]

On Jul 27, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Brian Dessent wrote:

> zooko wrote:
>
>> http://cygwin.com/cvs.html
>>
>> Which say to check out "winsup".
>
> That's your problem.  I'm not sure why that page says that, but just
> checking out winsup will give you a tree that can't be used to build
> anything.
>
>> Could someone give me a hint as to what other steps are necessary to
>> build cygwin using itself?
>
> "cvs co cygwin"

This doesn't work for me:

-------
$ CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@cygwin.com:/cvs/src cvs co cygwin
cvs server: cannot find module `cygwin' - ignored
cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot expand modules
-------

Hm.  Looking at the CVS layout it appears that I might need "src/",  
which is the common parent of "winsup/" and "newlib/".

I'll try that.

...

Hm, I can see that this is going to take a long time to cvs co.  I'll  
report back later how it works.

Regards,

Zooko


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