X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Murray Eisenberg Subject: Re: Segment fault/Bus error with Singular Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:16:16 -0500 Lines: 51 Message-ID: <43C53D60.6090107@math.umass.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Sorry, I don't understand your reply, either. To put it very simply: To intstall the snapshot: (1) Where do I put the downloaded snapshot files? (2) Do I run the 4 listed commands from a Windows command prompt, or instead from within Cygwin. I will greatly appreciate straightforward answers to these perfectly simple and straightforward questions. Dave Korn wrote: > Murray Eisenberg wrote: > >>Unfortunately, the instructions in FAQ # 2.15 "How do I install >>snapshots?" is not completely clear. It says that one should first >>close all Cygwin applications and shells. But then it says to "run" a >>sequence of commands: >> >> cd / >> tar ....... >> cd /tmp >> tar ...... >> >>Now given that I was supposed to exit Cygwin, presumably these commands >>are to be run from a Windows command prompt. >> >>But then to what does root directory "/" refer? To the Cygwin root? >>And if so, where should I have put the downloaded >>cygwin-inst-YYMMDD.tar.bz2 ? And if "/" does not refer to the Cygwin >>root, to what does it refer? >> >>If the commands are to be run within Cygwin, on the other hand, then >>that would seem to contradict the first instruction, namely, to close >>all Cygwin applications and shells. > > > The instructions say > > [... Few paras of intro ...] > 1. Download the snapshot, and run [... series of commands ...] > 2. After closing all cygwin apps, [ .... do something ...] > > Just because the intro section at the top refers in advance to one of the > steps of the procedure doesn't mean you're supposed to do the steps of the > procedure out-of-order! > > > cheers, > DaveK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/