Can RPM packages be installed into Cygwin?

2012-04-07 Thread De-Jian Zhao
Dear all, I noticed that there is a command - rpm - under Cygwin 1.7. Does that mean RPM packages can be installed into Cygwin? I tried to install ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3.i686.rpm (see: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/blast+/LATEST/ ) into Cygwin 1.7.13 with the command "install -i

Re: Can RPM packages be installed into Cygwin?

2012-04-07 Thread De-Jian Zhao
On 2012-4-7 16:12, marco atzeri wrote: On 4/7/2012 9:40 AM, De-Jian Zhao wrote: Dear all, I noticed that there is a command - rpm - under Cygwin 1.7. Does that mean RPM packages can be installed into Cygwin? I tried to install ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3.i686.rpm (see: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Re: Can RPM packages be installed into Cygwin?

2012-04-09 Thread De-Jian Zhao
On 2012-4-8 14:47, marco atzeri wrote: On 4/8/2012 5:10 AM, De-Jian Zhao wrote: On 2012-4-7 16:12, marco atzeri wrote: Thanks, Marco. I was not trying to run a native linux apps, and instead tried to rebuild the app from source. The BLAST software provides the Build.sh and Check.sh scripts

Re: Can RPM packages be installed into Cygwin?

2012-04-09 Thread De-Jian Zhao
On 2012-4-10 8:30, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: De-Jian Zhao sent the following at Monday, April 09, 2012 11:12 AM On 4/8/2012 5:10 AM, De-Jian Zhao wrote: On 2012-4-7 16:12, marco atzeri wrote: Thanks, Marco. I was not trying to run a native linux apps, and instead tried to

Re: Can RPM packages be installed into Cygwin?

2012-04-09 Thread De-Jian Zhao
It seems that the compilation under Cygwin is more complicated than expected. Thank you for your explanation, Warren. On 2012-4-10 8:49, Warren Young wrote: On 4/9/2012 9:12 AM, De-Jian Zhao wrote: the compilation always stopped at "checking python" even after python was installed.

Re: Can RPM packages be installed into Cygwin?

2012-04-18 Thread De-Jian Zhao
On 2012-4-17 13:58, Linda Walsh wrote: De-Jian Zhao wrote: Dear all, I noticed that there is a command - rpm - under Cygwin 1.7. Does that mean RPM packages can be installed into Cygwin? I tried to install ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3.i686.rpm (see: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables

Re: Can RPM packages be installed into Cygwin?

2012-04-18 Thread De-Jian Zhao
On 2012-4-18 22:03, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:13:20PM +0800, De-Jian Zhao wrote: On 2012-4-17 13:58, Linda Walsh wrote: [snip] Thank you, Linda. When I saw the error message after installing some packages to satisfy the dependencies, I was wondering why the rpm

Re: Can RPM packages be installed into Cygwin?

2012-04-18 Thread De-Jian Zhao
On 2012-4-19 0:58, Linda Walsh wrote: De-Jian Zhao wrote: Thank you, Linda. When I saw the error message after installing some packages to satisfy the dependencies, I was wondering why the rpm package still complained about the already installed packages. I was not aware that cygwin and

Re: Can RPM packages be installed into Cygwin?

2012-04-18 Thread De-Jian Zhao
On 2012-4-19 1:08, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:05:38AM +0800, De-Jian Zhao wrote: On 2012-4-18 22:03, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:13:20PM +0800, De-Jian Zhao wrote: On 2012-4-17 13:58, Linda Walsh wrote: [snip] Thank you, Linda. When I saw

Re: Can RPM packages be installed into Cygwin?

2012-04-19 Thread De-Jian Zhao
On 2012-4-19 7:09, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: De-Jian, Hello. It's me again. I suspect that just writing wrapper scripts would be faster than playing with RPMs and/or trying to compile blast yourself. As I understand it, blast programs are all command-line. I think that the eas

Why /usr/bin/*.dll must be executable?

2012-04-20 Thread De-Jian Zhao
Hi, When I type "cyg" and Tab, many executables starting with "cyg" are listed (Display all 262 possibilities? (y or n) y). I find that many of them are *.dll libraries under /usr/bin/. This is inconvenient to find the real executable applications (*.exe). Since *.dll files are only libraries

Re: Why /usr/bin/*.dll must be executable?

2012-04-20 Thread De-Jian Zhao
On 2012-4-20 21:02, De-Jian Zhao wrote: Hi, When I type "cyg" and Tab, many executables starting with "cyg" are listed (Display all 262 possibilities? (y or n) y). I find that many of them are *.dll libraries under /usr/bin/. This is inconvenient to find the real exe

Re: Why /usr/bin/*.dll must be executable?

2012-04-20 Thread De-Jian Zhao
On 2012-4-20 21:07, Václav Zeman wrote: On 20 April 2012 15:02, De-Jian Zhao wrote: Hi, When I type "cyg" and Tab, many executables starting with "cyg" are listed (Display all 262 possibilities? (y or n) y). I find that many of them are *.dll libraries under /usr/bin/. Thi

Re: Why /usr/bin/*.dll must be executable?

2012-04-20 Thread De-Jian Zhao
On 2012-4-21 0:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 21 00:17, De-Jian Zhao wrote: On 2012-4-20 21:07, Václav Zeman wrote: On 20 April 2012 15:02, De-Jian Zhao wrote: Hi, When I type "cyg" and Tab, many executables starting with "cyg" are listed (Display all 262 possibili

Re: Why /usr/bin/*.dll must be executable?

2012-04-20 Thread De-Jian Zhao
On 2012-4-21 1:29, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 4/20/2012 1:25 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: From: Corinna Vinschen Windows requires the x bit for DLLs to be loadable as executable code into the address space of a process. As Václav wrote, it's a Windows thing. So, I had to play with "chmod -x

Re: Why /usr/bin/*.dll must be executable?

2012-04-20 Thread De-Jian Zhao
On 2012-4-21 1:40, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 4/20/2012 1:32 PM, De-Jian Zhao wrote: On 2012-4-21 0:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 21 00:17, De-Jian Zhao wrote: On 2012-4-20 21:07, Václav Zeman wrote: On 20 April 2012 15:02, De-Jian Zhao wrote: Hi, When I type "cyg" and

Re: Why /usr/bin/*.dll must be executable?

2012-04-20 Thread De-Jian Zhao
On 2012-4-21 1:57, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 4/20/2012 1:47 PM, De-Jian Zhao wrote: On 2012-4-21 1:40, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 4/20/2012 1:32 PM, De-Jian Zhao wrote: On 2012-4-21 0:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 21 00:17, De-Jian Zhao wrote: On 2012-4-20 21:07, Václav Zeman

Re: Why /usr/bin/*.dll must be executable?

2012-04-20 Thread De-Jian Zhao
On 2012-4-21 3:06, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 20/04/2012 14:02, De-Jian Zhao wrote: When I type "cyg" and Tab, many executables starting with "cyg" are listed (Display all 262 possibilities? (y or n) y). I find that many of them are *.dll libraries under /usr/bin/. This is inco