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

John Fortin fortinj@attglobal.net
Fri Dec 1 04:31:00 GMT 2000


Earnie Boyd wrote:

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

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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