Re: cyclical dependencies in setup.ini?

[Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>]

At 11:40 PM 2/9/2004, Edward S. Peschko you wrote:
>> 
>> >Dependencies like this are all over the place inside of setup.ini - where's an 
>> >accurate representation of what needs to get compiled first?  How do you compile 
>> >from scratch?
>> 
>> 
>> These are package installation dependencies.  If you're trying to build
>> the Cygwin DLL, visit <http://cygwin.com/contrib.html> for info.  If you're
>> trying to build some other package, its configure script will tell you
>> the libraries it depends on.  You can then go looking in 
>> <http://cygwin.com/packages/> to find the packages you need to install 
>> if you don't already have them.
>> 
>
>ok, right, but I want to build versus the snapshots of code; not versus 
>CVS. For one thing, cvs access and ssh access to the outside world is blocked
>here from work, and http access is controlled through a javascript-thingy 
>which would be difficult (so I'm told) to integrate with CVS. Its also nice
>to know that you are building against a given numbered release. 


Yeah, though it's easier said than done.


>If possible, I'd like to avoid having to run across dependencies inside
>of configure files, hence I'm hoping that somewhere its documented 
>(centrally or in someone's head) which packages are dependent on other packages..


For building cygwin1.dll, the dependencies are pretty much what you see
in CVS.  You can look at CVS from the web if you don't know that already.


>(
>ps - I'm looking at CVS right now, and it looks like there are configure/makefiles
>common to all of winsup but not part of any given package. Is it possible to build
>all the sub-packages separately? 


Not if you want to do it the easy way. ;-)


>And are there a list of compilers that people have used to bootstrap cygwin with
>(ex: borland?)
>)


I don't know of anyone who has built cygwin1.dll with anything other than
gcc/g++.


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