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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 21:06:22 -0500
From: "David A. Cobb" <Superbiskit AT cox DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Installation problem with xfree86-prog
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

>On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, David A. Cobb wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I know that problems with Xfree86-cygwin have a list of their own, but I
>>think this may be a packaging problem or something super-weird about my
>>Cygwin installation.
>>
>>Lately, XFree86-prog is showing up among the packages to be updated.  If
>>I allow setup to attempt this, every attempt locks up trying to install
>>a file <file://./usr/X11R6/include/X11/ap_keysym.h>.  The setup control
>>    
>>
>               ^^^^^^^^
>This is a packaging error.  Should be "file://usr/X11R6/include/X11/ap_keysym.h".
>Which mirror are you using?  Which version of XFree86-prog are you trying
>to install?  Which version of setup.exe?
>  
>
Um, my error - "//." is a WindozIsm for making a URI to a "file on this 
machine."  The Setup display is what you said.

Anyway, I had not looked deeply enough.  Inside /usr/X11R6/include/X11/  
was an "X11.lnk"  I could never extract where the shortcut was pointing, 
but I suspect it looped back to its own parent.  In addition, the damn 
thing has an ACL that I couldn't delete or modify even after donning my 
Administrator cape and sacrificing the customary goat.  I wound up 
renaming the parent directory (original X11) and re-creating the 
legitimate part of the directory tree.  Then Setup ran fine with the 
latest (x.y.z-12) version of X86Free-prog.

-- 
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr.
Life is too short to tolerate crappy software!




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