Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/02/27/13:49:19
At 11:26 AM 2/27/2001, Duke Normandin wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 05:34:10PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
>wrote:
>
> > At 11:36 AM 2/26/2001, Duke Normandin wrote:
> > >Hi...
> > >
> > >Anybody have "w3m" working in their Cygwin environment? Mine works, but
> > >when I call for the "w3m" help file, it searches:
> > > cygnus/cygwin-b20/h-i586-cygwin32/lib/w3m/w3mhelpxxxxxxx.html
> > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > >what the hell path is this? Do I need to set up an Env. Var.? Tia...
> >
> >
> >
> > That's a very old path that apparently somebody hardcoded in. B20 is
> > many years out of date. I don't know if this can also be controlled by
> > an environment variable. You might need to consult the source to
> > figure this out.
>
>I suspected as much! I'll look around to see if there's a more recent
>port, although I kind of doubt it. Are there any "HOW-TO"s on what's
>involved in porting software to Cygwin?
Nope. In the simplest case, its just configure; make. Depending on the
package, what it uses, and its general portability, YMMV.
Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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