On 15 Oct 2001, at 18:10, Fernando Cassia wrote: > I've been pulling my hair trying to build wget 1.7 on cygwin... > > This is the first time I attempt to compile ANYTHING on cygwin, so maybe > perhaps someone will give me some clues... > > First, I fire Cygwin Bash shell. > > Second, I "gzip -d wget17.tar.gz" > > Third, I "tar xvf wget17.tar" > > So far, so good. > > But then why does "make" or "make install" fail? Why does cygwin refuse > to execute "install-sh".
Did you do "./configure" ? > Undisclosed@WINBOX d:/work/wget-1.7 > $ make > Makefile:30: *** missing separator (did you mean TAB instead of 8 > spaces?). Sto > p. > > I also tried to run "configure.bat" but it tells me to run NMAKE. I try > to run NMAKE and find out it seems I don't have it!. (And I did a FULL > Cygwin install that took several hours fetching stuff with my DSL link!, > I thought I'd have everything needed to build anything I want, by > now...). configure.bat is for building the native Win32 version. NMAKE is a Microsoft program that comes with VC++. > I'm sure someone has "been there", pulling your hair for the first time, > like me. > > Am I supposed to use a different (better?) environment than cygwin ? I > thought that building the latest wget with cygwin would be a "fire and > forget" operation... :-/ Are you using the old cygwin-b20 or the "new, improved" cygwin 1.x? I built it okay using the new, incrementally upgradable Cygwin 1.x (though I haven't upgraded it since the middle of September). I'm also running it on a NT-based system, rather than a 95-based system. I've also just built it with cygwin-b20 okay (also on my NT system).
