On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 21:31:37 +0100, jblazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have tried to compile an X11 program from the Guile tutorial >http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/guile-tut/tortoise1.html. I could >compile it but when I run it from bash, I get a core dump.
I don't program X, nevertheless there's nothing there that I can see which checks for the existence of an X server. Looks like all the error checking has been omitted for tutorial clarity. Here's a hint on avoidance until you reach the tutorial which does it in code... #! /bin/sh if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] then echo "No X atm" exit `false` else "$HOME"/tortoise1 fi Either of "info bash" or "man ash" (ash=sh). >On the Linux system I use for my work, the program runs flawlessly. I cannot >tell if this is because the program is badly written (that is not >well-behaved) or because there is a bug Cygwin / X11 somewhere. echo $DISPLAY man X >I shall not need X11 (as far as I can tell now) on Windows, but I thought this >may be interesting for Cygwin community. > >(By the way: Cygwin seems to be a phantastic product, now that learnt a few >things with a lot of help from this mailing list.) Loosely, you just need to launch a command shell from inside X and it'll run. Fyi it does work. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/