Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Mysterious problem with bash/fileutils
From: Neo 1061 <invalid AT erehwon DOT invalid>
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Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 09:48:18 GMT
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Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote in
news:3CE76C81 DOT 5E0943EE AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk: 

> Hello.
> 
> Neo 1061 wrote:
>> 
>> The capture says it all:
>> 
>> $ ls /usr/local
>> bin  etc  include  lib
>> 
>> $ mkdir /usr/local/include/allegro
>> mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/include/allegro': No such
>> file or dir
>> ectory
> 
> I presume this is a Cygwin problem, since we don't generally have
> DJGPP in /usr. This is completely the wrong newsgroup for Cygwin
> problems. Try sending a mail to one of the Cygwin mailing lists.
> 
> If you are using the DJGPP port of Fileutils, could you try to
> reproduce this problem and send me details (Fileutils version, DOS
> version, with or without long filenames). AFAICR mkdir works just fine
> (and passes the test suite). 

It is cygwin, but I don't want to join any high volume mailing lists. :P 
And I know there are a ton of allegro experts here. I doubt there are 
many on any cygwin list. Anyway, I did determine part of the problem. At 
some point during "make"..."make install" the /usr/local/incldue 
directory ceased to exist. Then "make install" went to copy allegro.h 
there, thus creating a *file" called /usr/local/include with the contents 
of allegro.h, and then mkdir choked trying to create a subdirectory of a 
file. There are now two problems -- one is how to restore the include 
directory to its former state (reinstalling gcc didn't help), and that 
may need to be referred to Cygwin experts (is there a *newsgroup*?), 
while the other is getting Allegro installed without recreating the 
problem, which means getting help from people knowledgeable about Allegro 
(and no Cygwin mailing list *or* newsgroup is likely to help there).