On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, James McLaughlin wrote:
> I've changed the post-texmf.sh to .sh.done - thanks for that Chris - and
> I ran update-info-dir.sh immediately afterwards. Unfortunately, upon
> trying to change it to .sh.done I discovered that a file with that name
> already existed in /etc/postinstall - and I have no idea what to make of
> this or what to do about it!
Not a problem -- the existing .sh.done is from the previous successful
invocation of that script. You can overwrite it.
> Plus, as well as the .sh and .sh.done stuff, which I think is all that's
> meant to be there, I also found the files
> gcc-mingw-g++-3.4.4-20050522-1.tgz and
> gcc-mingw-core-3.4.4-20050522-1.tgz - does anyone know what to make
> of/do about this?
You think wrong. /etc/postinstall is a special directory for scripts and
files needed to perform post-installation activity. The two files above
are needed for the gcc-mingw package postinstall. Just don't worry about
those.
> Cygcheck.out is attached - I ran it after I noticed the update-info-dir
> duplicate.
You have multiple cygwin1.dll's in your PATH. Fix that first (delete the
one in /home/James).
Other than that, apart from the textmode mounts (yuck!), it looks ok.
However, since your post broke threading *and* didn't quote the relevant
messages, I have no idea what your original problem was...
One common complaint about the postinstall script above is that it takes a
long time, with a suspicion of a hang. FYI, post-texmf.sh is *supposed*
to take a long time -- after all, it regenerates *all* of the LaTeX binary
format files, and this can take a while. If you see disk activity, the
script is running. If that was your original problem, you simply have to
be patient. Leave it overnight on slower machines, or something...
HTH,
Igor
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