RE: Difficulty with Cynwin 1.1.8

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Actually the mahor problem... he is runing > > $ make World.Win32

He should use make World.


Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 4:19 PM
> To: Jason Ahrens; cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Difficulty with Cynwin 1.1.8
> 
> 
> 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
> >
> >
> >
>