Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <4084C89C.3040706@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 02:52:12 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040120 MultiZilla/1.6.2.0c MIME-Version: 1.0 To: steve AT kelem DOT net Cc: The Cygwin Mailing List Subject: Re: problem installing libiconv-1.9.2 References: <3F557119 DOT 3090100 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <4083F35E DOT 5070504 AT pacbell DOT net> In-Reply-To: <4083F35E.5070504@pacbell.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Steve Kelem wrote: > What's the trick to getting libiconv to install? If I try to do "make > install" from tcsh, I get the message: > /bin/install -c -m 644 .libs/cygiconv-2.dll $dldir/cygiconv-2.dll > /bin/install: cannot remove `/usr/lib/../bin/cygiconv-2.dll': Permission > denied > > I assume that this is because I'm using cygwin/tcsh. probably, the DLL is "in use". What I do is a 'make install DESTDIR=...' and install iconv into a tmp directory. From there I can (a) close all cygwin apps and manually copy the files to the right places, or more typically (b) create a setup-compatible installation tarball and then use setup.exe to install it (setup handles scheduling of finish-install-after-reboot, etc.) Aint MSWindows grand? > The main reason I'm trying to recompile iconv is because after building > gd-2.0.22, I cannot get the perl module GD-2.12 to link, so I'm trying > to build a more recent copy (1.9.2) of libiconv: Ah, the gentle nudge... Any updates will have to wait until I'm not working 80+ hours a week. Which means late May, it seems. -- Chuck -- 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/