Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Authentication-Warning: caliper.ActiveState.com: gisle set sender to gisle@ActiveState.com using -f To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: david@carter.net, libwww@perl.org Subject: Re: libwww install fails on cygwin: HEAD vs. head filename confusion? References: <3B8A983E.30580.1C563E9@localhost> From: Gisle Aas Date: 27 Aug 2001 17:55:39 -0700 In-Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase"'s message of "Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:58:06 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii "Gerrit P. Haase" writes: > >Trying to install libwww-perl on cygwin, but seem to be having a problem with > >the symlink make install wants to create from /usr/bin/HEAD to > >/usr/bin/lwp-request. (Output below may be an aritifact of a previous failed > >make install.) I suspect the problem may be related to the fact that cygwin has > >a /usr/bin/head (like the tail program), which may be gettting confused with > >/usr/bin/HEAD due to Windows 2000 / Cygwin filename case-sensitivity issues? > > I remember we resolved this, right? In a way. The newest dev releases will ask interactively if you want to install these programs and these links. --Gisle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/