Re: Difficulty with Cynwin 1.1.8

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

run setup.exe and change the textmode to binmode there, that will change
/ for you.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Ahrens" <ahrensj@psi.ca>
To: <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 12:56 AM
Subject: Difficulty with Cynwin 1.1.8


> Hello. I am attempting to follow the directions for compiling XFree
with
> CygWin. However, I cannot seem to get off the ground with this.
>
> With Cygwin 1.1.8, I have been unable to remount / as binary. When I
> attempt to umount /:
>
> $ umount /
> umount: /: No such file or directory
> $ mount
> Device              Directory           Type         Flags
> C:\cygwin\bin       /usr/bin            system       textmode
> C:\cygwin\lib       /usr/lib            system       textmode
> C:\cygwin           /                   system       textmode
>
> I have downloaded the sources from CVS. Attempting to start the
compile
> however, I get the following error. I decided to try and go ahead
> anyway. I do not know if this error has anything to do with the
inablity
> to remount / as binmode ...
>
> $ make World.Win32
> :
> Building Release 6.5 of the X Window System.
> :
> :
> Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting "then")
> make: [World.Win32] Error 2 (ignored)
> cd ./config/imake
> make -f Makefile.ini clean.Win32
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/administrator/xc'
> make[1]: Makefile.ini: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `Makefile.ini'.  Stop.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/administrator/xc'
> make: *** [World.Win32] Error 2
>
> Thanks for any help offered. Documentation on how to accomplish this
has
> so far elluded my attempts to find it. The doc directory does not seem
to
> have any, and the information on the webpage stops before actually
> configuring/compiling/installing XFree on Xynwin/Win32
>
> Jason
>
>
>