RE: Problems compiling grep and friends

2007-10-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 October 2007 23:16, Siegfried Heintze wrote: > Dave, > I'm not sure what to do. I see you attached a diffs file. Is there a utility > such as patch that I can use to apply those diffs? What would be the > command? There's a utility *exactly* such as patch that you can use to apply those d

RE: Problems compiling grep and friends

2007-10-05 Thread Siegfried Heintze
Dave, I'm not sure what to do. I see you attached a diffs file. Is there a utility such as patch that I can use to apply those diffs? What would be the command? Thanks, Siegfried > >On 04 October 2007 22:13, Siegfried Heintze wrote: > >> Siegfried wrote: >> OK, I tried that. See below for the res

RE: Problems compiling grep and friends

2007-10-04 Thread Dave Korn
On 04 October 2007 22:13, Siegfried Heintze wrote: > Siegfried wrote: > OK, I tried that. See below for the results. Looks like we have the same > problem. > mkdir //usr > mkdir: cannot create directory `//usr': No such host or network path > mkdir //usr/local > mkdir: cannot create directory `/

RE: Problems compiling grep and friends

2007-10-04 Thread Siegfried Heintze
Siegfried wrote: OK, I tried that. See below for the results. Looks like we have the same problem. Thanks, Siegfried Brian wrote: So as a workaround, try "make install DESTDIR=/" which would result in "///foo/bar" which is the POSIX-sanctioned way of dealing with filesystems that reserve // for ne

Re: Problems compiling grep and friends

2007-10-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Siegfried Heintze wrote: > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/grep-2.5.1a-4/po' > if test -r ".././mkinstalldirs"; then \ > .././mkinstalldirs //usr/local/share; \ > else \ > /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs //usr/local/share; \ > fi > mkdir //usr > mkdir: cannot cre

RE: Problems compiling grep and friends

2007-10-03 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Siegfried Heintze wrote on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 12:23 PM: >> On 27 September 2007 14:15, Siegfried Heintze wrote: >> > Is there a cygpath command that will show me all the files connected > with grep? What is this command? Should not I have been able to > manually find some notes on compili

RE: Problems compiling grep and friends

2007-10-03 Thread Siegfried Heintze
> >On 27 September 2007 14:15, Siegfried Heintze wrote: > >> I'm running xp pro and I am trying to compile grep. I downloaded the source. >> ./configure seemed to go OK but there were problems with "make". It looks >> like it cannot find the usr directory. Is there a fix for this? > > How did you

RE: Problems compiling grep and friends

2007-09-27 Thread Dave Korn
On 27 September 2007 14:15, Siegfried Heintze wrote: > I’m running xp pro and I am trying to compile grep. I downloaded the source. > ./configure seemed to go OK but there were problems with “make”. It looks > like it cannot find the usr directory. Is there a fix for this? How did you configure

FW: Problems compiling grep and friends

2007-09-27 Thread siegfried
-Original Message- From: Siegfried Heintze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 7:15 AM To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com' Subject: FW: Problems compiling grep and friends I’m running xp pro and I am trying to compile grep. I downloaded the source. ./configure

FW: Problems compiling grep and friends

2007-09-27 Thread Siegfried Heintze
I’m running xp pro and I am trying to compile grep. I downloaded the source. ./configure seemed to go OK but there were problems with “make”. It looks like it cannot find the usr directory. Is there a fix for this? Thanks, Siegfried make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/Documents and Setting