Building buildroot on cygwin x64 win 7

Is there a known issue with building on cygwin within win 7 x64?

Here is the output from a build from git..

RandomUser at RANDOMWINBOX/d/Users/RandomUser/Documents/Projects/RTOS/buildroot

$ make

target/Config.in.arch:123: unknown option "Note"

target/Config.in.arch:124: unknown option "Using"

target/Config.in.arch:154: unknown option "64bit"

target/Config.in.arch:155: unknown option "non"

target/Config.in.arch:505: invalid option

target/Config.in.arch:506: unknown option "BR2_sh3"

target/Config.in.arch:507: invalid option

target/Config.in.arch:508: unknown option "BR2_powerpc"

target/Config.in.arch:509: unknown option "BR2_sh3eb"

Config.in:73: unknown option "The"

Config.in:83: unknown option "The"

Config.in:113: unknown option "The"

Config.in:114: unknown option "http"

Config.in:123: unknown option "Have"

Config.in:124: unknown option "the"

Config.in:126: unknown option "http"

Config.in:127: unknown option "http"

Config.in:136: unknown option "Have"

Config.in:137: unknown option "the"

Config.in:139: unknown option "http"

Config.in:140: unknown option "http"

Config.in:149: unknown option "Usually"

Config.in:150: unknown option "http"

Config.in:314: unknown option "WARNING"

toolchain/Config.in:8: unknown option "Some"

toolchain/Config.in:9: can't open file "form."

make: *** [menuconfig] Error 1

RandomUser at RANDOMWINBOX/d/Users/RandomUser/Documents/Projects/RTOS/buildroot

$ uname -a

CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 RANDOMWINBOX 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cygwin

RandomUser at RANDOMWINBOX/d/Users/RandomUser/Documents/Projects/RTOS/buildroot

$ git remote -v

origin git://git.buildroot.net/git/buildroot.git (fetch)

origin git://git.buildroot.net/git/buildroot.git (push)

RandomUser at RANDOMWINBOX/d/Users/RandomUser/Documents/Projects/RTOS/buildroot

$ git branch -r

origin/HEAD -> origin/master

origin/master

RandomUser at RANDOMWINBOX/d/Users/RandomUser/Documents/Projects/RTOS/buildroot

$ cat .git/config

[core]

repositoryformatversion = 0

filemode = true

bare = false

logallrefupdates = true

ignorecase = true

[remote "origin"]

fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

url = git://git.buildroot.net/git/buildroot.git

[branch "master"]

remote = origin

merge = refs/heads/master

RandomUser at RANDOMWINBOX/d/Users/RandomUser/Documents/Projects/RTOS/buildroot

$ git --no-pager log --max-count=1

commit 9ab73b51e8f0f30e1720639d40732fa20aab9d1a

Author: Peter Korsgaard <[email protected]>

Date: Fri May 27 16:18:21 2011 +0200

Update for 2011.05

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Hello,

Well, the issue is that Buildroot under Cygwin isn't supported. None of the main Buildroot developers are using/testing Buildroot under Cygwin.

Regards,

Thomas

Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com