Build Problem under Cygwin

[Steven Grunza]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: rtems-users-bounces at rtems.org 
>[mailto:rtems-users-bounces at rtems.org] On Behalf Of Robert S. Grimes
>Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 10:30 AM
>To: RTEMS mailing list
>Subject: Build Problem under Cygwin
>
>I'm trying to build the 4.9.0 toolset under Cygwin, and I'm 
>not quite getting there.  I have gotten binutils and 
>gcc/newlib built, but I can't configure autoconf-2.62.  Here 
>is the output:
>
>    $ ../autoconf-2.62/configure --prefix=/usr/rtems/4.9/bin
>    checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c
>    checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>    checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
>    checking for gawk... gawk
>    checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
>    checking whether /bin/sh -n is known to work... yes
>    checking for expr... /usr/bin/expr
>    checking for GNU M4 that supports accurate traces... /usr/bin/m4
>    checking how m4 supports trace files... --debugfile
>    checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
>    checking for emacs... no
>    checking for xemacs... no
>    checking for emacs... no
>    checking where .elc files should go... ${datadir}/emacs/site-lisp
>    checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
>    checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
>    checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
>    configure: creating ./config.status
>    config.status: creating tests/Makefile
>    gawk: ./confd0FP0v/subs.awk:1: BEGIN {\r
>    gawk: ./confd0FP0v/subs.awk:1:        ^ backslash not last 
>character
>    on line
>    config.status: error: could not create tests/Makefile
>
>
>But wait, there's more!  I already have autoconf-2.61 
>installed, so I decided to hope that could work, and attempted 
>to build RTEMS itself.  I get the same failure - here is the 
>relavent output:
>
>    <snip>
>    checking for bash... /usr/bin/bash
>    configure: creating ./config.status
>    config.status: creating Makefile
>    gawk: ./confUm8h5X/subs.awk:1: BEGIN {\r
>    gawk: ./confUm8h5X/subs.awk:1:        ^ backslash not last 
>character
>    on line
>    config.status: error: could not create Makefile
>    configure: error: /bin/sh '../../../rtems/tools/build/configure'
>    failed for tools/build
>
>
>Notice the similarity?  I couldn't find anything with Google, 
>primarily because I'm not sure what to specify to get good 
>results - either no hits or way too many.  I'm hoping someone 
>can help here...
>
>Thanks,
>-Bob
>

 The last I checked (about a day ago) cygwin seems to no longer be
directly "supported" for building RTEMS.  My understanding is that there
weren't enough people willing to help with cygwin and that if there
were, then cygwin would be "supported".  See
http://www.rtems.org/wiki/index.php/DevelopmentHosts for more info.

- Steven G.