Mail Archives: djgpp/2002/05/19/08:15:37
Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote in
news:3CE76C81 DOT 5E0943EE AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk:
> Hello.
>
> Neo 1061 wrote:
>>
>> The capture says it all:
>>
>> $ ls /usr/local
>> bin etc include lib
>>
>> $ mkdir /usr/local/include/allegro
>> mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/include/allegro': No such
>> file or dir
>> ectory
>
> I presume this is a Cygwin problem, since we don't generally have
> DJGPP in /usr. This is completely the wrong newsgroup for Cygwin
> problems. Try sending a mail to one of the Cygwin mailing lists.
>
> If you are using the DJGPP port of Fileutils, could you try to
> reproduce this problem and send me details (Fileutils version, DOS
> version, with or without long filenames). AFAICR mkdir works just fine
> (and passes the test suite).
It is cygwin, but I don't want to join any high volume mailing lists. :P
And I know there are a ton of allegro experts here. I doubt there are
many on any cygwin list. Anyway, I did determine part of the problem. At
some point during "make"..."make install" the /usr/local/incldue
directory ceased to exist. Then "make install" went to copy allegro.h
there, thus creating a *file" called /usr/local/include with the contents
of allegro.h, and then mkdir choked trying to create a subdirectory of a
file. There are now two problems -- one is how to restore the include
directory to its former state (reinstalling gcc didn't help), and that
may need to be referred to Cygwin experts (is there a *newsgroup*?),
while the other is getting Allegro installed without recreating the
problem, which means getting help from people knowledgeable about Allegro
(and no Cygwin mailing list *or* newsgroup is likely to help there).
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