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Re: Unable to build cygwin from cvs sources


On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 06:30:35AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- John Paulson <munch@powertv.com> wrote:
>>I've downloaded the sources to cygwin using cvs and followed the
>>instructions on http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/cvs.html but
>>that causes the following error message to eventually appear.  I'm
>>using cygwin 1.1.2 with w95.
>>
>> 
>>running /bin/sh ./configure  --host=i586-pc-cygwin --build=i586-pc-cygwin 
>>--with
>>-newlib --enable-multilib --with-target-subdir=i586-pc-cygwin 
>>--cache-file=../..
>>/config.cache --srcdir=.
>>loading cache ../../config.cache
>>configure: error: can not find install-sh or install.sh in . ./.. ./../..
>>configure: error: ./configure failed for cygwin
>
>I've successfully built the cvs cygwin dll with out headaches.
>
>In the parent of src
>mkdir bld
>cd bld
>../src/configure --prefix=/usr
>make
>
>YMMV,

From the sound of the email, I think the problem is pretty clear.  There
needs to be an install-sh available where configure can find it.  You
can't just check out the winsup directory to compile cygwin.  You need
files from the top-level, too.

cgf

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