On 2013-07-04 13:39-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
So if the consensus here after looking at the setup_install.out results is that cygwin on Wine is more or less installed properly from these results (except for the rename issue above which I can fix by doing that rename manually as suggested by the error message), then the next order of business [...]
I have now looked more carefully at the setup_install.out results that are wrapped inside a tarball I attached to a previous post in this thread. At the same time I have also looked at the resulting files in my cygwin install tree. It turns out that because of errors the first install script created an empty /etc/fstab rather than the desired result and also was unable to create the /dev directory. These issues very likely had follow-on effects for several of the other postinstall scripts that were run (for example, all the read-only filesystem error messages when any attempt was made to write to /dev.) Anyhow, it now seems likely there are at least a couple of Wine bugs that are still preventing a clean postinstall phase for setup.exe on Wine, and the rest of this story will continue for now at http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24018. Meanwhile, I thank the people here that (a) helped to fix the Cygwin fork bug, and (b) gave me good directions for trying out that fix before it becomes part of an official Cygwin release. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
