Interim source package compilation instructions
Here are some interim instructions for building the source packages until I update the Contributor's Guide (verified to work by a friend on another Cygwin install): 1) At the top of the following page is a list of packages that are required for compiling Cygwin/X. I recommend putting setup.exe in Full view and just scanning the lists next two each other... it should only take a few seconds to pick all of the packages... if it takes longer you are trying too hard. http://x.cygwin.com/docs/cg/prog-build-native.html 2) Next, you need to grab the source packages via setup.exe for the following (click the blank box in the src column for each of these packages, it should turn to either a cross or an na (yes, that is dumb, but that it what it does)).: XFree86-base XFree86-bin XFree86-fenc XFree86-fnts XFree86-fscl XFree86-man XFree86-prog XFree86-xserv 3) Cut and paste the following little ditty into a Cygwin bash shell. It should finish in around than two hours, maybe more if you are slower than an Athlon 1.2 GHz/512 MB RAM/7200 RPM HD. After about 5 to 15 minutes you should see a file called /usr/src/build.log get created and it will grow to about 3.4 MB before it is done. Then /usr/src/install.log will get created and will grow to about 1.3 MB before it is done. Then you will see lots of output in the console and the final result should be less than 30 minutes away and should look like a tar command ending (because it is). cd /usr/src \ cp xc/CYGWIN-PATCHES/XFree86-4.3.0.sh . \ ./XFree86-4.3.0.sh mkdirs \ ./XFree86-4.3.0.sh conf \ ./XFree86-4.3.0.sh build build.log 21 \ ./XFree86-4.3.0.sh install install.log 21 \ ./XFree86-4.3.0.sh strip \ ./XFree86-4.3.0.sh pkg \ ./XFree86-4.3.0.sh spkg 4) If you want to perform a clean rebuild, just run the following command first before repeating step #3. Beware that removing thousands of files on my machine takes between 5 and 25 minutes (it varies for some reason) and could take up to an hour if the Windows machine is particularly slow. Of course, Linux with ResierFS completes this operation immediately. cd /usr/src \ ./XFree86-4.3.0.sh quickclean Harold
Re: Interim source package compilation instructions
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: 4) If you want to perform a clean rebuild, just run the following command first before repeating step #3. Beware that removing thousands of files on my machine takes between 5 and 25 minutes (it varies for some reason) and could take up to an hour if the Windows machine is cygwin's file-delete is very slow. Generally the Windows delete is much faster (even counting emptying the trash). particularly slow. Of course, Linux with ResierFS completes this operation immediately. sort of. I've observed that there's a big performance hit when I untar large files or do other operations that create new files. Haven't noticed that it's an faq though. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
Re: Interim source package compilation instructions
Thomas Dickey wrote: On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: 4) If you want to perform a clean rebuild, just run the following command first before repeating step #3. Beware that removing thousands of files on my machine takes between 5 and 25 minutes (it varies for some reason) and could take up to an hour if the Windows machine is cygwin's file-delete is very slow. Generally the Windows delete is much faster (even counting emptying the trash). Are you referring to a delete through Windows Explorer? I assume you are because you are referring to the trash. In fact, I quite often do a Shift+Delete on the folder to delete it without sending it to the trash, but this takes just as long if not longer. NTFS was just not designed for several thousand files, nor does it allow for good delete performance of entire directory trees. Not to say that those were bad decisions, they were basically trade offs that they had to make to do other things, but it is annoying. particularly slow. Of course, Linux with ResierFS completes this operation immediately. sort of. I've observed that there's a big performance hit when I untar large files or do other operations that create new files. Haven't noticed that it's an faq though. Not sure if you are talking about a performance hit under Cygwin or Linux? I agree, untarring on Cygwin is horribly slow for large files. Linux usually doesn't have a problem with operations on thousands of files, at least not for me. Harold
