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 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere To: libwww@perl.org, cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:46:08 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: libwww install fails on cygwin: HEAD vs. head filename confusion? Reply-to: gp@familiehaase.de Message-ID: <3B8B5A50.14050.1A0D7BFC@localhost> References: "Gerrit P. Haase"'s message of "Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:58:06 +0200" In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12cDE) X-Hops: 1 X-Sender: 320081107336-0001@t-dialin.net Gisle Aas schrieb am 2001-08-27, 17:55: >"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 There is also now an option to make Cygwin using case-sensitivity, if set to case_check:strict, there should be no more problems: CYGWIN=$'binmode tty ntsec case_check:strict nowinsymlinks' Gerrit -- =^..^= -- 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/