Larry, thanks for your responses... > 1. Make sure your path does not include " ". Some of the packages I > tried to compile from source failed with funny errors eluding to "Files/Windows" > (obviously "Program Files/Windows") - once I updated my Path to not include > references to "Program Files" those errors went away.
I assume you meant "Program Files" in your opening statement. Your solution works. The alternative is to quote the internal paths with spaces or otherwise escape the spaces. >> Actually the error specifically states "Files/Windows". It took me a turn to >> figure out it was complaining about my path. I did try escaping the spaces >> in $PATH with a \ but that didn't have the desired effect... So I decided to >> update PATH to not have any spaces. > 3. Most of the source I worked with came from > ftp://cygwin.org/pub/cygwinports/release-2/GNOME, as it turned out a very > good source of CygWin packages - including a few that not appear on Cygwin's > setup (such as libpeas that I have not been able to find) More than "a few" packages in Cygwin Ports are not in the official distribution. :-) They can all be installed with 'setup.exe' if you add the path to the Cygwin Ports repository to 'setup.exe' though. >> Can you explain this a bit more - I'm not sure how to "add the path to >> setup.exe". I tried using the above URL from setup.exe - but it didn't give >> me an option to install deja-dup directly. > 5. A number of my problems were caused by the fact that I was building > my source on a network drive (as my home directory happens to be located on a > share). My experience shows that building on the local machine works a lot > better. I think it has something to do with symbolic links not working right > on network shares (or is that just Samba network shares?) Permissions are more problematic on your typical network share. If you can avoid them, that makes things easier, yes. > If anybody believes this compiled version of deja-dup would be share > worthy I'm happy to do so.---------------------------------------- Is it really different from the one on Cygwin Ports? Regardless, if you want to provide it as an official package for Cygwin, read through <http://cygwin.com/setup.html> and in your ITA/ITP, just ask Yaakov if he minds you picking up this package and its dependencies from him. >> Hmm. It probably isn't - however (as I indicated above) I've not been able >> to figure out how I would go about installing it "directly" - i.e. without >> first downloading the source from Cygwin Ports and compiling/installing. >> Perhaps there's another trick I'm not aware of. >> -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
