--- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Gerry Reno wrote: > > > This week I upgraded to Cygwin 1.5.3 from 1.3.18 and when I run > > cygcheck I'm seeing these things: > > > > <it seems everything under apache is reported as missing> > > (I do have apache2 installed under /usr/local/apache2. Maybe that > is > > cause of problem???) > > Missing in what sense?
In the sense that cygcheck -c is reporting a huge list of missing files under Missing file: /etc/apache.new/... ... Missing file: /var/www.new/... ... These directories do not exist on my system. If you moved the files after installing them > via > Cygwin setup and now they are reported as "missing" by "cygcheck -c", > then > this is expected behavior (also see below). Files were not moved after Cygwin setup. I also selected to install Apache2. <snip/> > > Packages reporting as incomplete: > > > > Missing file: /usr/share/locale/locale.alias from package gettext > > Missing file: /usr/share/locale/locale.alias from package texinfo > > Can't open file list /etc/setup/XFree86-base.lst.gz for package > > XFree86-base > > Missing file: /usr/share/locale/locale.alias from package gettext > > > > Are these missing files a problem? I always install everything > so > > I'm not sure how to correct this. > > Yes, they are. You must have lost these files a while ago, but until > recently "cygcheck -c" did not check for package integrity. I was > about > to suggest reinstalling one or both of the packages, but then looked > at > the package listings, and there is indeed a conflict -- *different* > files > with the same name (usr/share/locale/locale.alias) appear in both > packages: gettext and texinfo. In fact, it also appears in the > [prev] > version of tar (FWIW). Maintainers of texinfo and gettext should > take > note. Reinstalling still might help, though. > > The "Can't open file list" is superficial (XFree86-base is an empty > package) and can be ignored. It should only appear if verbose mode > is > requested (using a "-v" option), anyway. > > > Other question: Can I use the cygwin version of gcc for > compiling > > under mingw? Mingw gcc is old version (2.95.3-6) and cygwin gcc is > > 3.2. Or is there newer gcc available from cygwin site for Mingw? > > > > thx, > > Gerry Reno > > You can use Cygwin's gcc to compile mingw programs. You need to > install > the various *mingw* packages (gcc-mingw, mingw-runtime, etc), and > then > pass the "-mno-cygwin" flag to gcc. Please address MinGW problems to > the > mingw-users list, though. > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his > route > to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
