Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:22:17 -0500 To: David Robinow Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Making wget Message-ID: <20000126132217.A2149@cygnus.com> Mail-Followup-To: David Robinow , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <20000126164708.6905.qmail@web2101.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000126164708.6905.qmail@web2101.mail.yahoo.com>; from drobinow@yahoo.com on Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 08:47:08AM -0800 On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 08:47:08AM -0800, David Robinow wrote: >--- Chris Faylor wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 09:38:59AM -0000, Norling, Gunnar wrote: >>>Some days ago there where a discussion involving the wget program. ... > >>Why not just download one of the prebuilt versions??? > >I find this strange, especially considering the source. Isn't Cygwin >supposed to be a development environment? Sure. Are you a developer? If so, then these problems are not insurmountable and probably only require some investigation of the source. Feel free to offer him some advice. I didn't want to take time to figure out what was going on and suggested a much faster way of getting wget on his system than doing a 1. configure 2. make 3. What??? HELP!!!! 4. Wait for someone on the mailing list to look at the source and figure out what was going wrong. cgf > As I reported Monday >./configure; make >worked for me. (make install did not but I don't expect that) > >I'm running gcc-2.95 with the 1/15/99 snapshot on NT 4.0 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com