On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 00:06 +0800, Steven Woody wrote: > Thanks Yaakov! It seems that I succeeded following the README file in > the graphviz port package. I uncompress the package into the /usr/src > followed by doing a 'cygport graphviz-*.cygport download' and 'cygport > graphviz-*.cygport all'. > > The process seems quite successful except after run I still don't get > the graphviz installed. I have to launch the cygwin setup.exe and > point it to the local directory of /usr/src and then do a installation > for packages found there. Is this normal?
Yes, cygport only *creates* packages, it does nothing about installing them. In order to install these packages with setup.exe, you need to use genini to create a setup.ini, etc., as documented on the website. > And, a little strange is, there are so many packages (*.tar.bz2) found > in my /usr/src directory, more than those generated from graphviz > build process as the README noted, these packages includes boots-* > freetype-* gcc-testsuite-*. I don't why I have these packages in the > /usr/src and I can remember that I did not touched /usr/src directory > before. Do you have a clue? You must have installed 'Src' packages with setup.exe. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple