RE: X11/Xlib.h missing

[Jörg Schaible <Joerg dot Schaible at Elsag-Solutions dot com>]

Jörg Schaible wrote on Friday, November 12, 2004 5:59 PM:

> Christopher Faylor wrote on Friday, November 12, 2004 5:16 PM: [snip]
>>> No problem, as long as there is at least an explanation for weird
>>> behaviour.  :)
>> 
>> I spent way too long last night trying to figure out why *I* couldn't
>> install X anymore.  I could see the setup.exe messages flashing by as
>> it was "installing" the xorg packages but, when I was done, only some
>> things from X were installed.  If I unpacked the tar.bz2 files by
>> hand then I got everything I expected.  It took about an hour for a
>> "Oh. Wait a minute." reaction to kick in.
>> 
>> The problem with the tar files was that I'd used the -o option to tar
>> when creating the tar files.  This creates smaller tar files but
>> apparently setup.exe doesn't like the old style tar format.
>> 
>> Anyway, I'm just operating on a hunch here but I'll be REALLY
>> interested to hear if this repackaging fixes the problems that people
>> were seeing. If it does, I'll look into the setup code to see why
>> that is.
> 
> Thanks for your effort, Chris. I'll try it on Monday ASAP
> when I am in office again. At home I have the *real thing*
> and cannot test this sort of problems :))

Worked fine. Thanks.

- Jörg