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 Message-ID: <20000327224324.18996.qmail@web121.yahoomail.com> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:43:24 -0800 (PST) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: updating to snapshot To: John Wiersba Cc: cygwin users MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- John Wiersba wrote: > Earnie, > > I'm trying to build vim5.5. The build failed when trying to link with > libcurses.a because of a lack of _ctype_. This is apparently because I'm > using a binary version of ncurses I pulled off franken.de which was built > against a snapshot which didn't need _ctype_. So, I tried to rebuild > ncurses to fix the _ctype_ problem. But I ran into a problem with the > install: > > ../././man/../mkinstalldirs /blah/target/man > ../././man/../../././man/../mkinstalldirs: Can't open ... > > You can see that the program name has been screwed up by bash. Should I > install a snapshot more recent that 1/15/99 to fix this problem? > A newer snapshot will fix the _ctype_ problem if you install the cygwin-inst tarball. It used to be __ctype and was changed since 1/15/99. > Here's the real question: If so, which snapshot should I install (i.e. > which snapshot do you believe is the most stable)?. And, what's the easiest > way to prepare to back the snapshot out if something goes wrong? > I'll suggest the most recent snapshot and I posted within the past 4 to 6 weeks a howto on using a snapshot. Please refer to the archives for that. ===== --- Earnie Boyd: __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ Mingw32 List: Mingw Home: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com