RE: [Mingw-users] A little OT, but what the...

[Suhaib S. <ssi...@in...>]

> Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> > --- Jeff Sturm <jef...@ap...> wrote:
> > >
> > > No problem.  (Can mingw build xfree86 yet?  I know there 
> was a cygwin
> > > project...)
> > >
> >
> > I would think that to be a real chore.  

The first task should be getting imake right, once that is there
patching libs and programs code should be easy, though time consuming.

>Cygwin doesn't 
> build it cleanly yet.
> > It takes me two to three hours to do the whole of xc but 
> some executables don't
> > make for some reason or another.  


Which executables!  Everything SHOULD build.

>I haven't investigated 
> yet.  One of the
> > headaches is that when I do `make World' it does a `make 
> clean' by default and
> > I haven't figured out how not to do that yet.


You do not need to do a make World every time.  You can do
make Makefiles then make makedepends from top level
directory.  It will not run make clean.


Suhaib

> >
> 
> Earnie
> 
> FWIW, After my initial Make world, I go into the top level 
> Makefile and comment out
> the make clean and make makefiles..
> You can also do a 'make all' or 'make includes' or whatever 
> individually.  The
> 'make World' is annoying as hell.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > Alright, this has gotten a bit more than a little OT. ;)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
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