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Re: Re: problems in the patch
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at ecoscentric dot com>
- To: Tim Drury <tdrury at siliconmotorsports dot com>
- Cc: MAX Kuo <cyk12 at it dot canterbury dot ac dot nz>,eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 28 Oct 2002 08:04:06 -0700
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: problems in the patch
- References: <3DB7E82E@webmail> <3DBD5EB8.5030401@siliconmotorsports.com>
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 08:58, Tim Drury wrote:
>
> Max,
>
> I read all the emails on the ecos list so sending this to me directly
> won't provide too much information. I really don't know what your
> problem is below, but it is _not_ an ecos problem - it sounds more
> like a cygwin problem. Have you searched the cygwin faq and email
> list archives? The only other suggestions I would have are:
> 1) are you sure gunzip is installed and in the path?
> 2) if I recall correctly, cygwin used to have problems being installed
> or working out of directories with spaces in the name
> (i.e. "program files"). I would install cygwin and ecos in a
> directory tree that has no spaces in the names.
>
> I hope you figure out your problem.
>
I'd say to try the change Jonathan made last week which changed the
use of "gunzip" to be "gzip -d".
> -tim
>
>
>
> MAX Kuo wrote:
>
> > Hello Tim and Thomas
> >
> > I really get some serious troublein install the whole ecos.
> >
> > I use the "ecos-latest.tar.gz" that file from the net at 24 oct 2002.
> >
> > I use tar xzvf to extreact it in the program files\ red hat this folder
> >
> > and i install the ecso configTool 2.11 fromthe net
> >
> > when i run the configTools, and i want ot apply Thomas Koeller patch
> >
> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-patches/2002-10/msg00008.html
> >
> > but it just show the error message below:
> >
> >
> > >>Command exexution erroe:
> > >>
> > >>extracting pkgadd.db:
> > >>coundn't execute "gunzip": no such file or directory?
> >
> >
> > the file i download is about 8 to 10 kb and i really cannot apply it
> > through
> > many way that i tried for one whole week.
> >
> > can i put the file under red\ har that folder and
> > use tar xzvf to extract the epk file?
> > or you can tell me how to apply the patch?
> >
> >
> >
> > and I wonder how to apply Tim Drury patch in window?
> > because his patch is not in epk form??
> >
> >
> > many thanks
> >
> > max
> >
> >
>
>
>
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