search for /usr/share/automake*/config.guess check the latest version of automake $ which automake $ automake –version find the appropriate automake folder in /usr/share/automake.1.11.1/config.guess replace config.guess from your build tree with /usr/share/automake.1.11.1/config.guess (The same may/is usually needed for config.sub.)
⸻⸻ Short answer ⸻⸻ Define environment variable: CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict As pointed out by mwm you may also have to go to the settings or to run bash as Administrator. See the Notes section. ⸻⸻ Long answer ⸻⸻ Default Cygwin symlinks are just regular files By default Cygwin creates text files as workaround for Windows symlink flaw. … Read more
You’re probably missing the development package. The package name varies by distribution, but it’s the one containing /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gobject-introspection-1.0.pc (or /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/gobject-introspection-1.0.pc for some 64-bit distros): Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, etc.: gobject-introspection-devel Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc.: libgirepository1.0-dev Arch: gobject-introspection FreeBSD: gobject-introspection Cygwin: libgirepository1.0-devel msys2: mingw-w64-x86_64-gobject-introspection and/or mingw-w64-i686-gobject-introspection
run sed -i ‘s/\r//’ setup.sh to fix your line endings
Once upon a time, 64-bit Cygwin was missing many packages present in 32-bit Cygwin, but today the list of such packages is quite short. Since that was the last significant reason to create new 32-bit Cygwin installs on 64-bit Windows systems, it is unlikely that you have a good reason to do that today. The … Read more
Have a read through the answers at this link: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/vim-and-file-permissions-on-Windows-7-td61390.html The solution there worked for me also: Edit /etc/fstab and add this line at the end of the file: none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,noacl,posix=0,user 0 0 Then close all Cygwin processes, open a new terminal and ls -l on your files again. Explanation: By default, Cygwin … Read more
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You can use cygpath: cygpath -w ~ Example output: C:\Users\dhaley
(assuming Cygwin is installed at C:\Cygwin): Open Task Manager and close any processes that look to be Cygwin related. Open C:\Cygwin\bin in Windows Explorer Verify that dash.exe, ash.exe, rebase.exe, and rebaseall exist in this folder If any of them are missing, re-run Cygwin setup and select the dash, ash, and rebase packages right-click your C:\Cygwin … Read more
EDIT: For recent versions of Cygwin (1.7.34 and beyond), see this newer question. Like sblundy’s answer, you can always edit by-hand. But if you want to do it the “official” way, use the cygwin-specific mkpasswd command. Below is a snippet from the official docs on mkpasswd : For example, this command: Example 3.11. Using an … Read more