From: corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de (Corinna Vinschen) Subject: Re: Problems building Octave 2.1.10 with b20 12 Nov 1998 08:06:37 -0800 Message-ID: <364A028A.D98B5074.cygnus.gnu-win32@cityweb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com William D Kirby wrote: > > I have been trying to build GNU Octave development version 2.1.10 using > cygwin b20. When I executed it I get the error message "Fatal: invalid > password object". > [...] > What do I have to do get these programs to work? Did you create an /etc/passwd file by typing mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd ? Corinna - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".