RE: Compilation of the source, and aquisition of binaries

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Try using Internet Explorer for downloading.  Binaries and sources archives
are not corrupted. They are being corrupted during download to your PC.

Suhaib

-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Jackson [mailto:warp_kez@bigpond.net.au]
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 7:19 AM
To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Compilation of the source, and aquisition of binaries


I am using the ftp program from the cygwin distribution.

I have tried the redhat and aarnet sites and I end up with the same problem.

I set it to binary, no prompt and hash it at ever 1024 bytes.

The source comes through fine though.

Wayne


----- Original Message -----
From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 10:02 PM
Subject: RE: Compilation of the source, and aquisition of binaries


>
> Your download software is corrupting it.  The archives are perfectly Ok,
> downloaded by 100s of users and extract just fine.  The only "toy" you
need
> is a better download software.  In case you are using Netscape, which is
> known to create problems with bz2
> archives" try adding bz2 in Preferences...
>
> Suhaib
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne Jackson [mailto:wjackson@powerup.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 10:35 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Compilation of the source, and aquisition of binaries
>
>
> 1) Is there a ftp site that has an un-damaged archive of the binaries?
>
> 2) Why is it that only about 10% of the entire source is compiled?
>
> There is 70MB of code there, but on 7MB of files are produced, not even
the
> XServer is built.
>
> I have modified the site.def to use the cygwin-site.def.  Something is
just
> a miss here.
>
> Basically put, I end up with the exact same result as I would if I
> downloaded teh X11R6.4 source from ftp.x.org.
>
> Is there other "toys" required that are not listed.
>
> Wayne Jackson
>
> http://www.powerup.com.au/~wjackson
> http://www.ozemail.com.au/~wmjackson
> http://users.bigpond.net.au/warp_kez
>
>