Build Problem under Cygwin

[Sebastian Huber]

Building under Cygwin works fine.  I updated the wiki page

http://www.rtems.com/wiki/index.php/BuildingUnderCygwin

recently.  If you check out from the RTEMS CVS under Windows you have to
ensure that no UNIX to DOS line ending translation happens.

Steven Grunza wrote:
>> -----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.
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