On Mar 3 22:23, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >What about some helpful details which allow to reproduce your problem? > >Like, say, how to get the packages, how you install them, stuff like > >that. You seem to imply that everybody knows how to do that. I don't. > > Sorry, I have omitted details because TL2010 is a full distribution > of LaTeX. Anyway, just for completeness.. > > Usually TL2010 can be installed via the WEB (*), but I maintain a > local repository: > > rsync -avz --delete --exclude=*mactex* tug.org::texlive/tlnet/ ./tlnet_repo > > (tlnet_repo is about 1.7G). When one has the repository, it is > simple to install (Cygwin is officially supported). As 'root' I do: > > ./tlnet_repo/install-tl > > (it is a Perl script). > > Here, usually I choose to change the installation directory from > /usr/local/texlive/2010 to /usr/local/texlive: > > hit 'd', then '1', then type /usr/local/texlive, then 'r', then 'i' > > This starts the installation ('i' == install). After 30-45 minutes > (on AMD Athlon X2, Win XP 32 SP3), it finishes (2.5G!) and suggests > to add the binaries directory to PATH etc. (MANPATH, INFOPATH..). > > The last steps of installation regard the generation of format file > for all users (-rw-r--r-- root root), but with recent snapshots the > format file are creted only for root (-rwx-----+) (**) : these > permissions resemble those created when one installs native Windows > applications ('c:\Program files' is full of similar files).
Thanks, I'll give it a test. However, that's very strange. Keep in mind that the perl script will at one point just call open(2), like every other application. If you see that behaviour as part of a perl script, you should also see that which every other tool, even simple stuff like `echo foo > bar'. Did you check that this doesn't happen in other, easier to reproduce circumstances as well? Installing thousands of files just to see a failing open looks a bit like overkill... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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