It's rather a long time since I tried building my own cygwin from CVS. With the new release out, I thought I'd give it a try, as I imagine HEAD is very close to 1.5.19-2. I followed the instructions in the FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin
A few comments: . It would be useful to mention in the FAQ which packages need to be installed to perform the build. I expect everyone will realise make, gcc, binutils etc. are required, but I found I needed cocom (for shilka) which I'd not come across before, and dejagnu in order to run the tests. . The FAQ info describing how to run the tests is wrong. It worked for me when I ran "make check" in the i686-pc-cygwin/winsup subdirectory of my build directory. . When I ran the tests, I got five unexpected failures (devdsp, msgtest, pthread-cancel1, semtest and shmtest). Is this to be expected :-). Could I suggest the FAQ is updated? -- Cliff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/