Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <373993AE.3600DF16@mcd.alcatel.be> Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:43:59 +0200 From: Richard Hickling X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: texinfo install References: <001801be9c95$f50cf5c0$91e0c992 AT davidson26pc DOT magnet DOT fsu DOT edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > The problem seems to have been that I > first used WinZip to decompress the original tar.gz file. I don't have a > clue > why this had any adverse effects (the directory structure was intact) but > when > I used just tar in a bash sell the make worked perfectly! That is, I just > did "./configure" then "make all" with no additional settings. Other than > using > tar vs WinZip everything was identical. (I did need to be root when running > make in order for some link to be set.) Yes I also decompressed with WinZip. I won't be so foolish again. I will attempt to rebuild texinfo forthwith. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com