Re: Segment fault/Bus error with Singular

[Murray Eisenberg <murray at math dot umass dot edu>]

Sorry, I should not have asked about where to put the downloaded files; 
of course that would not matter given that the argument to tar includes 
the path to the downloads.

BUT:  The "How do I install snapshots?" FAQ answer is still unclear.  It 
says:

  Before installing a snapshot, you must first Close all Cygwin
  applications, including shells and services (e.g. inetd, sshd), before
  updating cygwin1.dll....

   1. Download the snapshot, and run:

      cd /
      tar ...
      cd /tmp
      tar ...

   2. After closing all Cygwin apps (see above), use Explorer or the
      Windows command shell to move C:\cygwin\tmp\usr\bin\cygwin1.dll to
      C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll.

So once again I ask for clarification.  I really do think it's a very 
simple and perfectly straightforward question: Does one run those 4 
commands in Step 1 from a Windows command prompt or from within Cygwin?


Dave Korn wrote:
> Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>
> [Murray, let's keep this thread on-list please.]
>
>
> > Sorry, I don't understand your reply, either.
> >
> > To put it very simply:  To intstall the snapshot:
> >
> >    (1) Where do I put the downloaded snapshot files?
>
>
>   You can put them where-ever you like.  That's why the tar command is written
> with an argument of "/posix/path/to/cygwin-inst-YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2": that
> doesn't mean you literally write /posix/path/to....., it means you replace
> that bit with the path to where-ever you wanted to download them to.
>
>
> >    (2) Do I run the 4 listed commands from a Windows command prompt,
> >        or instead from within Cygwin.
>
>
>   As it says in the FAQ, ...
>
> 1)  download the snapshot and run these commands
> 2)  shut down all cygwin apps and move the final file into place.
>
>  ... so why do you keep asking if 2) comes before 1)?
>
>   And if 2) doesn't come before 1), why would you worry about having a cygwin
> app running at stage 1) if you don't have to "shut down all cygwin apps" until
> stage 2)?
>
>     cheers,
>       DaveK



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