Hi Roland,
On 7/1/2026 9:43 AM, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote:
Hi!
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Is anyone else seeing this build failure:
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$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19045 bloodbath039 3.6.9-1.x86_64 2026-04-21 15:46 UTC
x86_64 Cygwin
$ git clone -b cygwin-3_6-branch git://cygwin.com/git/newlib-cygwin.git
$ cd newlib-cygwin/winsup/
$ ./autogen.sh
$ cd ../..
$ mkdir testinstall && cd testinstall/
$ /home/roland_mainz/work/cygwin/newlib-cygwin/winsup/configure
--prefix=/home/roland_mainz/work/cygwin/testinstall
...
$ time nice make
[...]
Looks like you're building in the source directory. That won't work.
You need a separate build directory, in which you run the configure from
the source directory, and then run make in that build directory. Take a
look at the FAQ again. You're almost there :-).
..mark
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