[Gnu-arch-users] New user - building on Cygwin

[Karl Waclawek]

I recently got interested in Arch and I am planning
to learn more about it. But first I had to build
it on Windows. I found one related message in the archives
and used its instructions. I got tla release 1.1pre5 to build 
following these steps :

- create separate "build" directory (parallel to src)
- cd to this directory
- run ../src/configure --with-cc gcc --config-shell /bin/bash
- run make 

Which works fine. Then I ran make test and got errors, the same
as in the archived message, i.e. for the "fs-tests" directory
(the error messages not telling me much), but then I disabled
this test to see which other tests would fail. 
There was only more more directory that had errors, and that was
"unidata-tests". However, the only problem there is that the two 
files being compared - ",tmp" and ",tmp2" - use different types 
of line breaks, otherwise they are identical.

This looks encouraging - although I would like to know more about
why these file systems tests are failing.

I am going to read the tutorial and see how it goes when I am
actually using Arch.

Karl