On Apr 25,  8:23pm, charles@embsyspro.com (<charles@embsyspro.com>) wrote:
-- Subject: RE: Building NetBSD for MIPS using Cygwin

Hmm, there is PR21494 about building under cygwin but nobody has applied
it. There might be more lossage introduced by other recent changes. It
would be nice if someone fixed all of that, but it seems that there has
not been a lot of interest fixing all the issues. My guess is that there
are portability problems in the scripts that prevent things from working
properly, and it is just a few hours of work for someone who is familiar
with the tools to fix them.

christos

| Here is the sequence that I am following as outlined in 'The NetBSD Guide',
| Part V. Building the system, Chapter 25. Crosscompiling NetBSD with build.sh
| 
| 1.) I have the source installed at '/cygdrive/c/NetBSD/usr/src'
| 2.) I invoke the Bash shell
| 3.) If I issue the following command...  '$ ./build.sh -m mipsco tools'
| 
| I get the following...
| 
| shift: Illegal number: + 3 -1?
| 
| build.sh: Unknown operation `-m'
| 
| 4.) If I issue the command as such... '$ bash ./build.sh -m mipsco tools'
| 
| I get the following...
| 
| $ bash ./build.sh -m mipsco tools
| ===> build.sh command: ./build.sh -m mipsco tools
| ===> build.sh started: Mon Apr 25 20:12:57 PDT 2005
| ===> No nonexistent/bin/nbmake, needs building.
| ===> Bootstrapping nbmake
| /tools/make/configure: Can't open /tools/make/configure: No such file or
| directory
| 
| ERROR: Configure of nbmake failed
| *** BUILD ABORTED ***
| 
| 5.) If I alter the $TOP variable within Build.sh from 'TOP=$(/bin/pwd -P
| 2>/dev/null)'  to 'TOP=/cygdrive/c/NetBSD/usr/src'
| 
| I get the following...
| 
| $ bash ./build.sh -m mipsco tools
| ===> build.sh command: ./build.sh -m mipsco tools
| ===> build.sh started: Mon Apr 25 20:19:34 PDT 2005
| ===> No nonexistent/bin/nbmake, needs building.
| ===> Bootstrapping nbmake
| checking for sh... /usr/bin/sh
| checking for gcc... cc
| checking for C compiler default output... a.exe
| checking whether the C compiler works... yes
| checking whether we are cross compiling... no
| checking for executable suffix... .exe
| checking for object suffix... o
| checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
| checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
| checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
| checking for regex.h... yes
| checking for poll.h... yes
| checking for regfree in -lregex... no
| checking for library containing regfree... none required
| checking for setenv... yes
| checking for strdup... yes
| checking for strerror... yes
| checking for strftime... yes
| checking for vsnprintf... yes
| configure: creating ./config.status
| config.status: creating buildmake.sh
| config.status: error: cannot find input file: buildmake.sh.in
| 
| ERROR: Configure of nbmake failed
| *** BUILD ABORTED ***
| 
| 
| Charles
| 
| ---------------------------------------
| 
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Christos Zoulas [mailto:christos@tac.gw.com]
| Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 6:24 PM
| To: port-mips@netbsd.org
| Subject: Re: Building NetBSD for MIPS using Cygwin
| 
| 
| In article <DPEJKBIMHGLHACKBHHEJAEDLCFAA.charles@embsyspro.com>,
|  <charles@embsyspro.com> wrote:
| >Hi,
| >I am trying to evaluate Linux vs. NetBSD for a MIPS based "Set-top"
| project.
| >I am using currently Win2KPro / Cygwin as the development platform.  I can
| >successfully build Linux following the Linux 'cross-compile' instructions,
| >but I have been unable to get NetBSD to complete the configure process
| using
| >the 'Build.sh' instructions.  Has anyone been able to perform this
| recently?
| >If so, can you tell me how you did it or point me in the proper direction?
| 
| How are you trying to do it and where/how does it fail?
| 
| christos
| 
| 
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