Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/10/06/14:48:18
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Olivier Perron wrote:
> In the fil316b.zip package, install.exe seems to be a symlink to
> ginstall.exe.
>
> If I execute: install my_prog.exe destdir
> I have the following error: C:\USR\BIN\GINSTALL.EXE : cannot open
It is a known bug in the stub of v2.01: if the target of a ``symlink'' has
exactly 8 characters in its name, the symlink doesn't work. This bug is
on the two reason that most of the ports of GNU packages are configured
with INSTALL='ginstall -c' option. (The other reason is that there are
too many programs named install.exe on a typical DOS/Windows system, so I
would suggest to always invoke ginstall from the command line.)
This bug will be corrected in v2.02, but in the meantime just run
`ginstall' directly, that's all.
An alternative would be to rename ginstall.exe to something else, and
stubedit install.exe to run that image, but that might break your ability
to configure and build other GNU packages (see above).
Yet another way is to rename ginstall.exe to install.exe, but I explained
above why this might be dangerous.
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