Using tar -cjf and editing the setup.ini file solved my problem. For some reason 7zip doesn't compact .tar.bz2 properly.
[]s Douglas On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 07:52:53PM -0300, Douglas Gemignani wrote: >>Hello, >> >>I made a distribuction package that will include some binaries, >>headers, libraries and linker files. I would like them to be at >>/usr/local/ so I won't have to configure the PATH for my binaries, but >>I can't make setup.exe to install my package. >>I packed everything under folders, then run tar and .bgz, I got my >>package-1.0.0-1.tar.bgz, I did the setup.hint file, and the setup.exe >>identify my package, but it won't install it. >> >>Is there any trick that I forgot? >> >>I tried to use that tool cygport, but it doesn't work as well, it has >>so many depencies, and fails at some checks. >> >>I followed almost everything at http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html. >> >>I hope I can find some help here! I'm using 7zip to compress. > > setup.exe doesn't read setup.hint files and setup.exe doesn't read > 7zip files. > > It isn't clear why you need setup.exe to do your installation. Why > not just run tar? If you really do need to use setup.exe then you > will need to create an entry in a setup.ini file. That has a slightly > different format from setup.hint although if you look at an existing > setup.ini file you should be able to see what is needed. > > cgf > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/
