On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 03:34:20PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: >Eric Blake wrote: >>> Isn't this inconsistent? Any plans to fix this? >--- >Given the difficulting in building the cygin executable, I doubt it. > >Most projects, I get the tarball, or check it out. Do a configure, or >run the bootstrap.sh/autogen.sh script, then configure, then make -- >and it just works. > >Never had any luck w/cygwin -- ALWAYS had things fail with missing >files /executables that I never had any luck in finding. > >Tried maybe 3 separate times to track things down over 5 years; >Eventually I came to the conclusion that the builders didn't want to >make easy building of cygwin a high enough priority that any 'dummy' >(like me) could just check it out and build it -- that there were >things "assumed" about the environment that any one who was not a dummy >would know should be there. > >So I haven't tried since. Never had a problem building anything else. > >So I doubt you see a patch soon -- I have too many other projects where >I can just download the source and they just build for me to spend >days/weeks groveling before what was such a friendly, helpful >development team, to submit work that would probably have been rejected >anyway. > >***Things may have changed***, and please don't take personally my >experiences with any of your predecessors, who at times drove me to >apoplectic fits when I let them get to me. Not too bright of me...but >C'est la vie. If things have changed, I may try again sometime but >cygwin's goals don't include x64, which tends to limit my excitement, a >bit, at this point...;-)
Please don't send details of your private travails to this list. Your life is not on-topic. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
