Woops! My turn to send private by mistake. Rob === ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 10:28 PM Subject: Re: building from scratch, a cygwin enviroment
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > hey > > > > thanks again for the quick response (-; > > No probs. > > > right I cant use setup.exe from the cygwin env we use VISE to do > various > > things (don't flame me that's the way life is I am not interested in > this) > > I'm not going to flame you, I'll stick to pity. Cygwin used to use VISE > a long time back, and the custom setup.exe was created to install and > maintain the mount tree, amongst other things. (I'm not talking about > the GUI version either). So you've got an uphill battle in front of you. > > > the real thing is collecting all the sources into a tree and building > > that source tree > > > > so that they can be distributed on a CD > > > > I wondered if anyone has done this before and had anything to share ? > > Nothing specific, a full CVS checkout of the winsup tree should work for > the cygwin1.dll and it's sources, but you'll need to grab all the > sources for all the other utilities you choose to include. And they > almost certainly won't build in a single tree, so you'll probably want > to turn to the BSD ports system for inspiration. > > Rob > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/