Re: Building the kernel with Cygwin

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 01:05:24PM -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
>On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Chris du Quesnay wrote:
>>The scripts/basic directory contains a fixdep.exe after the make is
>>run.  There is no fixdep file.  I tried renaming the fixdep.exe to
>>fixdep, but that also resulted in the same make error.
>
>Ah yes! The Makefile will not execute 'fixdep.exe` it executes 'fixdep'
>--hard coded.  I don't know how well cygwin emulates a Unix
>environment, but maybe you can use an alias???  ..  Like...  alias
>fixdep='fixdep.exe'

How about a symlink?

ln -s fixdep.exe fixdep

cgf
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