Re: Strange case of missing XWin

2010-01-14 Thread Eric Blake
According to Thomas Wolff on 1/14/2010 7:15 AM: > Another note: Given the point above, I wonder why "bash" is listed in > the dependencies for xterm; xterm can be invoked with any other shell as > well ;-) bash _must_ be listed for anyone with a postinstall script, to guarantee that /bin/sh exists

Re: Strange case of missing XWin

2010-01-14 Thread Thomas Wolff
Andy Koppe wrote: 2010/1/14 Fergus: I installed portable Cygwin to a low-capacity USB stick by "picking" Base and then extras from the selection menu. Amongst other things I picked up xterm, Lyx, TeX. (I've done this item-by-item selection a few times in the past but not recently; and never

Re: Strange case of missing XWin

2010-01-14 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/14 Fergus: > I installed portable Cygwin to a low-capacity USB stick by "picking" Base > and then extras from the selection menu. Amongst other things I picked up > xterm, Lyx, TeX. (I've done this item-by-item selection a few times in the > past but not recently; and never with 1.7.) > Some

Strange case of missing XWin

2010-01-14 Thread Fergus
I installed portable Cygwin to a low-capacity USB stick by "picking" Base and then extras from the selection menu. Amongst other things I picked up xterm, Lyx, TeX. (I've done this item-by-item selection a few times in the past but not recently; and never with 1.7.) Somehow I am still missing XW