cygwin64 build recipe (was: Re: cygwin64 process substitution: known bug?)

[Gregory M. Turner]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:23 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:


    No, not really.  You can do that, and I still use the Linux cross
    compiler to build Cygwin, but we don't really *have* to bootstrap
    anymore.

<snip>

    $ cygport cygwin.cygport download prep compile install package

    or

       $ cygport cygwin.cygport download allmostall

    That should do it.


Before I got this reply I tried native 64->64 ./configure && make && 
make install (roughly speaking) out-of-tree against cvs and... it worked 
like a champ!  One quirk -- by default it builds as 
x86_64-unknown-cygwin, whereas iirc the 32-bit equivalent builds as 
*-pc-cygwin... after supplying host/build/target configure arguments and 
/usr prefix, everything seemed fully cooked at a glance.

Doing it the cygport way sounds even better, though, since then I get 
setup64.exe-based deployment, autorebase, and whatever postinstall 
magic, avoiding the old make install / crash / make install ritual.

< party-hat / confetti emoticon >

-gmt

hoping against hope he managed to post this successfully exactly one time


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