I wanted to build the gnu compilers on my cygwin installation on my
windows 2000 desktop. This is cygwin version 2.573.2.2, which was
running fine until this afternoon.
When I tried to install the gnu compiler package, I received an error
from windows in setup, that caused windows to kill the setup and
(allegedly) write a log file (where?). I thought perhaps it was a
permissions error, so I tried it as administrator, which also did not
work; same error. I suspected perhaps anti-virus or anti-spyware was to
blame, so I killed them both as administrator and tried again, still no
luck.
I then downloaded the latest setup and tried it (both anti-virus an
anti-spyware turned off); that did not work either (same error). I then
gave up and rebooted, and life got dramatically worse.
I can no longer start XWin. If I double click the icon windows brings
up a message that it is looking for "startxwin.bat", which is odd
because it was there before I started this. I could not find it,
either. I did find an old "startxwin.bat", but it does not work.
Attempting to run it gives a fatal error.
How do I regain my cygwin functionality? I would like to be able to
setup the gnu compiler collection if possible, but at this point just
getting XWin back would be progress.
thank you
Lee Parsons
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