> I've just been trying Cygwin for the first time on a newish MS Win XP box. > I'm using the network install option (via mirror.aarnet.edu.au) and adding > a few extra items to the 'default' install, such as XFree86 and most of > the 'development tools' (gcc etc), and of course, vim. (The goal here is > to replace my noisy old Sun SS5, which is only being used as an Xterm anyway) > > Q1: After the install gets a little way through, I start getting error boxes > popping up saying: "error: unknown (or unsupported) file type 'x'", where 'x' > is a different character each time the popup appears. I get groups of these > happening with different packages throughout the install process. Anyone > come across this? > > Following such an install, the X-functionality and bash etc all > seem to work fine, but trying run gcc gets me various error messages > such as 'program cc1 not found'. I'm wondering if this install > problem may have something to do with it?
Can you try re-installing the packages (that aren't working, or that you geot error's from) from your local cache with the setup snapshot on <http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/>? This is a weird error I've not seen any referrence to before, but It may have been fixed in the latest snapshot. > Q2: Keyboard mappings: In a std xterm, how can I map the Delete key to > something else? I'd prefer the Del character (0x7f) (I use Del as a > single-key intr as a rule, via 'stty intr ^?'). I've tried playing with > xmodmap without luck. 'xkeycaps' looked promising, except I can only find > sources for that and can't build it yet because of the above gcc problem! > (Currently the delete key seems to end up mapping to Escape [ 3 ~, ie: > 0x1b5b337e) You can put this into your ~/.inputrc # DEL key in bash "\e[3~": delete-char Which should work. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
