From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Earnie Boyd To: Jean Jordaan Cc: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: OT: sorry for bugging you .. (RE: time to download) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 06:39:00 -0000 Message-id: <3A89471B.F2D40DCC@yahoo.com> References: X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00642.html Jean Jordaan wrote: > > Hi cgf > > > >Oh... and downloading the sitecopy source, running "./configure", then > > >running "make", then running "make install" worked fine. > > > > And, additionally, Jean, > > How do you mean, "And, additionally"? As was clear from my original > post, which you quoted with your reply, I have successfully compiled > sitecopy and am using it happily. > > > if you have other needs then think about > > CONTRIBUTING to the project rather than just sucking up > > Check out my sig. I'm a mere tech writer. I'm not a software engineer. > Cygwin and open source tools had no presence at Mosaic before I > introduced them. As far I can see, this is also contributing to the > project. Am I mistaken? Does the Cygwin project not exist to enable > many people, including non-programmers, to use these excellent tools? > No, you're not mistaken. Yes, Cygwin is a project whose community incorporates many different cliques of peoples. And, yes, you are contributing to the project just by creating a presence for the product. The tools are excellent though because some of those cliques keep adding to the set of tools. Our set of tools have recently become sufficiently large that we've begun to see a number of similar posts concerning "What am I missing" by the less non-technical cliques. The common response to such has been "since you don't know then install all". However, I for one believe it's time to start helping out those cliques that don't know to figure out what's missing until we can modify setup to select a minimal installation. > cgf, please don't play whack-a-mole with everyone who doesn't include > patches with each post. All I did was to try and give some feedback > on how Cygwin's being used here. I didn't demand that anyone do > anything. What I meant to convey was that I didn't expect anyone to do > anything that wasn't a priority for them. > LOL > This list is immensely helpful, and various people have succintly > told me to just put cygwin1.dll in the path, and all will be fine. > (Sinan Unur, on the sitecopy list, noted that cygintl.dll is also > necessary if sitecopy was compiled with NLS.) A couple of other > people just flamed me (actually, Michael Erdely did both :) Thanks > for the pointer, Michael). Someone, give cgf a bunch of red roses to > cheer him up! ;o) > You can remove the cygintl.dll dependency by doing a -static build. The instructions for a static build for libintl.a is in the /usr/doc/Cygwin/gettext*.README. Good luck, Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple