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Re: X11/Xlib.h missing
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:27:23 -0500
- Subject: Re: X11/Xlib.h missing
- References: <cn1vmn$uj8$1@sea.gmane.org> <20041112151334.GE26737@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 10:13:34AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:27:51AM +0200, Jani Tiainen wrote:
>>I tried to install development headers (xorg-x11-devel, version
>>6.8.1.0-1). When I selected package I only get "nothing to be installed"
>>message. No headers, nothing. Package itself is downloaded to setup
>>directory.
>
>I repackaged some of the X .tar.bz2 yesterday to potentially work around
>a problem installing. The options that I used to tar confused setup.exe
>into thinking that the packages were empty.
>
>So, this is consistent with the symptoms of trying to install one of
>those packages. This should be rectified soon as the new versions of
>the tar files make it out to all of the mirrors.
>
>So, the solution is "try again".
Just one more bit of data: I rectified the problem at ~12:30AM EST
2004-10-11 so the new packages should be on most mirrors soon if they
are not there already.
Apologies for the inconvenience I caused.
cgf