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Re: font.dir a font.alias related with Can't start X
- To: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Subject: Re: font.dir a font.alias related with Can't start X
- From: Luc Ferran <Luc dot FERRAN-EXTERNAL at gemplus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:07:13 +0200
- Cc: "'cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <7F2B9185F0196F44B59990759B91B1C2505ECB@ins-exch.inspirepharm.com>
> > More over, I've had a look in Xinstall.sh about tests made on
> > extract and
> > extract.exe.
> > I've typed the same comand line : extract --version | head -1.
> > I've saw that a Microsoft version of extract was
> > responding(c:\winnt\extract.exe).
>
> Well, then it is obvious if you have another extract.exe in your PATH.
> It could corrupt the archives. You need to set your PATH in a way that M$
> version of extract is not found first.
I've vérified that. Here is my original PATH
/usr/x11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT:/cygdrive/c/Program
Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/Common/Tools/WinNT:/cygdrive/c/Program
Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/Common/MSDev98/Bin:/cygdrive/c/Program
Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/Common/Tools:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft
Visual Studio/VC98/bin:/home/administrator/scripts
I've put . as first path to have
.:/usr/x11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT:/cygdrive/c/Program
Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/Common/Tools/WinNT:/cygdrive/c/Program
Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/Common/MSDev98/Bin:/cygdrive/c/Program
Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/Common/Tools:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft
Visual Studio/VC98/bin:/home/administrator/scripts
and here is the result of Xinstall.sh :
Do you wish to continue? (y/n) [n] y
Checking which OS you're running...
uname reports 'CYGWIN_NT-4.0' version '1.3.2(0.39/3/2)', architecture 'i686'.
chmod: changing permissions of `extract': No such file or directory
/tmp/X11/gnu-tar: .XFree86_Version: Not found in archive
/tmp/X11/gnu-tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Warning: can't detect the bindist version
Checking for required files ...
Any other test?
Luc