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authorChristopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>2003-02-13 14:18:23 +0000
committerChristopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>2003-02-13 14:18:23 +0000
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* how.texinfo: Add more w32api words.
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+2003-02-07 Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
+
+ * how.texinfo: Add more w32api words.
+
2003-02-07 Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
* ntsec.sgml: Add note on special names for missing user/group.
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@subsection How do I rebuild the tools on my NT box?
Install all required components in one directory (we'll call it /src).
-Ideally, you should check out what you need from CVS (@file{http://cygwin.com/cvs.html}) but
-otherwise, you can install the appropriate source packages from the
-cygwin distribution.
+Ideally, you should check out what you need from CVS
+(@file{http://cygwin.com/cvs.html}). This is the @emph(preferred
+method) for acquiring the sources. Otherwise, you can install the
+appropriate source packages from the cygwin distribution.
As of this writing, you need to install at least the cygwin source
-package and the w32api source package.
+package and the w32api source package. The winsup source package
+should be extracted first and the w32api source directory should
+be extracted into the resulting 'winsup' directory. Then rename
+w32api-whatever to w32api.
It is possible that the cygwin source package may require a newer
version of the w32api package since the release of the packages is