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RE: X11/Xlib.h missing
- From: Jörg Schaible <Joerg dot Schaible at Elsag-Solutions dot com>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:59:25 +0100
- Subject: RE: X11/Xlib.h missing
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Christopher Faylor wrote on Friday, November 12, 2004 5:16 PM:
[snip]
>> No problem, as long as there is at least an explanation for weird
>> behaviour. :)
>
> I spent way too long last night trying to figure out why *I*
> couldn't install X anymore. I could see the setup.exe
> messages flashing by as it was "installing" the xorg packages
> but, when I was done, only some things from X were installed.
> If I unpacked the tar.bz2 files by hand then I got
> everything I expected. It took about an hour for a "Oh. Wait
> a minute." reaction to kick in.
>
> The problem with the tar files was that I'd used the -o
> option to tar when creating the tar files. This creates
> smaller tar files but apparently setup.exe doesn't like the old style
> tar format.
>
> Anyway, I'm just operating on a hunch here but I'll be REALLY
> interested to hear if this repackaging fixes the problems
> that people were seeing. If it does, I'll look into the setup code to
> see why that is.
Thanks for your effort, Chris. I'll try it on Monday ASAP when I am in office again. At home I have the *real thing* and cannot test this sort of problems :))
- Jörg