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Re: XV Installation Problem


Ugh, top-posting...  Reformatted.

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, steven woody wrote:

> On 4/11/06, Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@XX.XXX.XXX> wrote:

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.

> > On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, steven woody wrote:
> >
> > > my installation of cygwin has already included xorg-xfree-devel
> > > package, but the i still get error when compile XV 3.10a. below is
> > > information:
> > >
> > > ...
> > > ./RANLIB.csh libtiff.a
> > > make[1]: ./RANLIB.csh: Command not found
> > > make[1]: *** [libtiff.a] Error 127
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/xv-3.10a/tiff
> > > make: *** [tiff/libtiff.a] Error 2
> >
> > Looks like you either used a non-Cygwin version of tar to unpack the
> > source, or you're using an OS/filesystem/setting combo that doesn't
> > support executable bits on files.  Please follow the Cygwin problem
> > reporting guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.
> >
> > If it's the former, unpack the source tarball again using the Cygwin
> > version of tar, which should set executable permissions properly.  It
> > could also be that the tarball itself is broken (i.e., RANLIB.csh isn't
> > executable), in which case a "chmod a+x RANLIB.csh" should do the trick.
>
> Thank you Igor.
>
> i am using Cygwin version of tar.
>
> i found there is only one RANLIB.csh which is in tiff/ directory, and
> the .csh file has executable bit set ok.

As Matthias mentioned, you are likely either missing /usr/bin/csh or the
tcsh package.  The latter guess would have been confirmed had you followed
the problem reporting guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.  In
either case, (re)installing the tcsh package should fix your problem.
	Igor
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