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From: Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com>
To: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@cygnus.com>
Cc: <insight@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Cannot run from build directory
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 08:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B60B2BF9.6C2F%jingham@apple.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39E51C7E.53C87466@cygnus.com>

Fernando,

Thanks for this AND all your other efforts on behalf of Insight!!!  I know
pushing this issue forward is in great part your own initiative (and
probably evenings too, though I hope not).  It is much appreciated!

Jim

> Jim Ingham wrote:
>> 
>> Duane,
>> 
>>> 
>>> You basically have to install the entire thing.... you have no choice.
>>> 
>>> It's *NOT* something you are going to easily be able to fix.
>>> 
>>> there are some shell variables, TCL_LIB... or something like that you
>>> can use to point to a directory or two... but that does not solve the
>>> "pre-install" layout -vrs- "post-install" layout of files.
>>> 
>>> -Duane, who has been there and done that.
>>> 
>>> http://www.franklin.com/ebookman (see what I've been doing)
>> 
>> Nooo...
>> 
>> I worked really hard to make it so you can run Insight from the build
>> directory.  I also had to fix it a whole bunch of times pver the past couple
>> of years.  I am no longer in the business of doing this, and it seems it has
>> broken again.  Just keep bugging Syd et al, and I am sure they will fix it
>> sooner or later.  This really should work.
>> 
> 
> It works fine on Linux.  It is broken on Cygwin (probably one of those
> path-style
> conversions missing).
> 
> There was a bug (I fixed last night) that would cause trouble if your source
> tree
> had both itcl/iwidgets2.2.0 and itcl/iwidgets3.0.0 which was hurting Syd but
> apparently has nothing to do with the Windows case.
> 
> It is my list of things to fix.
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2000-10-12  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <971299064.12857.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com>
2000-10-11 18:18 ` Jim Ingham
2000-10-11 19:05   ` Fernando Nasser
2000-10-12  8:48     ` Jim Ingham [this message]
2000-10-12  9:55       ` Fernando Nasser
2000-10-10 11:10 Syd Polk
2000-10-10 11:26 ` Duane Ellis

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