John Emmas wrote on 26 September 2008 08:49: > Hi Yaakov, > > Thanks for adding libjack to your SourceForge archive, here:- > > http://cygwin-ports.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cygwin-ports/ports/trunk/media/ > > Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to access it. I tried running > cygwin's setup.exe, selecting "User URL" and adding the URL but this > results in an initialization error (cygwin cannot find the appropriate > setup.ini file).
Wrong kind of URL; that's just the source repository. The setup.ini URL is ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports and the cygwin-ports homepage is at http://cygwinports.dotsrc.org/ > Next I tried downloading the tarball that I found in the archive but it > seems to contain mostly documentation. Yeh, without setup.exe to fetch the dependencies for you a manual install is not always straightforward for all cygwin packages. > For libjack (which is what I'm interested in) the tarball contained a > README file with build instructions - the first of which is:- > > unpack jack-audio-connection-kit-0.109.2-X-src.tar.bz2 > > However, that file doesn't seem to be in the archive and there's no > indication of how to obtain it. Installing cygwin elements is usually > very simple so I feel that I must be missing something blatantly obvious. Yeh, without setup.exe to fetch the dependencies for you a manual install is not always straightforward for all cygwin packages! > Please can you (or anyone) let me have some instructions for extracting > libjack from the above archive? Don't; try setup.exe again with the URL above. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/
