On 08/26/2010 01:47 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 26-08-2010 13:42:05 +0200, Al wrote: >> When doing "emerge --oneshot --nodeps binutils" I run into errors >> starting with a missing "sys/user.h". I find no direcotry "sys" in >> the ".../bfd/" direcory. I did run it twice with the same result, so I >> don't assume an instability of Cygwin. > > looks to me like cygwin just doesn't have a /usr/include/sys/user.h >
probably cygwin maintains their own set of binutils patches...? they need rather special stuff anyway, i guess. i don't think that it will be easy to get this building out of the box. ask somewhere in the cygwin realm, whether it's possible to obtain patches and/or build without them... markus >