Re: error building base 3.14.7 w/ cygwin 1.5.13-1

[John Dobbins <jad@lepp.cornell.edu>]

Dale,

I ran into a similar problem when I tried to build EPICS in a directory 
outside the root cygwin directory. I see from '/cygdrive/d/' that you 
are attempting the same. When I moved my top level EPICS directory to be 
below the cygwin root I had no problem. As far as I could tell the prior 
attempt led to confusion about paths.

John Dobbins
Lab of Elementary Particle Physics
Cornell University

Dale L. Brewe wrote:

> I'm getting the error message below if I try to build epics base 
> 3.14.7 (I also tried 3.14.5 earlier w/ the same result) with cygwin 
> under w2k. I would appreciate any hints. The version of cygwin is 
> 1.5.13-1. This is my first stab at building epics w/ cygwin.
>
> make[3]: Entering directory 
> `/cygdrive/d/epics/base-3.14.7/src/dbStatic/O.cygwin-x86'
> .../../../bin/cygwin-x86/e_flex.exe 
> -S../../../include/flex.skel.static  ../dbLex.l
> "../dbLex.l", line 25: illegal character
> "../dbLex.l", line 27: unknown error processing section 1
> ....
> etc.
>
> Here is a segment of dbLex.l starting at line 18:
> static int yyreset(void)
> {
>         BEGIN INITIAL;
>         return(0);
> }
>
> %}
>
> %%
>
>
> thanks
> dale brewe
>
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