Thanks for the catch. I changed/fixed my path. Added the "." and tried it again with the same results. So as I was scratching my head I noticed the message read //gnu-tar: not found and //extract: not found and I thought why // ? So I looked at the Xinstall.sh and discovered the following code fragments WDIR = `pwd`, EXTRACT=$WDIR/, and TAR=$WDIR/. Since I have the downloaded stuff in / the code fragments resolve into //gnu-tar and //extract, a problem. So I moved the stuff to a new directory /XFree86 and got the following messages.
Creating /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb Extracting Xetc.tgz into a temporary location ... == Extracting /XFree86/Xetc.tgz == Installing the app-defaults config files ... /XFree86/gnu-tar: not found /XFree86/gnu-tar: not found Installing the fs config files ... /XFree86/gnu-tar: not found /XFree86/gnu-tar: not found Installing the lbxproxy config files ... /XFree86/gnu-tar: not found /XFree86/gnu-tar: not found Installing the proxymngr config files ... /XFree86/gnu-tar: not found /XFree86/gnu-tar: not found Installing the rstart config files ... /XFree86/gnu-tar: not found /XFree86/gnu-tar: not found Installing the twm config files ... /XFree86/gnu-tar: not found /XFree86/gnu-tar: not found Installing the xdm config files ... /XFree86/gnu-tar: not found /XFree86/gnu-tar: not found Installing the xinit config files ... /XFree86/gnu-tar: not found /XFree86/gnu-tar: not found Installing the xsm config files ... /XFree86/gnu-tar: not found /XFree86/gnu-tar: not found Installing the xserver config files ... /XFree86/gnu-tar: not found /XFree86/gnu-tar: not found Installing the XftConfig config file ... + cp -p .etctmp/XftConfig /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XftConfig /XFree86/gnu-tar: not found /XFree86/gnu-tar: not found Installing the mandatory parts of the binary distribution == Extracting /XFree86/Xbin.tgz == == Extracting /XFree86/Xlib.tgz == == Extracting /XFree86/Xman.tgz == == Extracting /XFree86/Xdoc.tgz == == Extracting /XFree86/Xfnts.tgz == == Extracting /XFree86/Xfenc.tgz == == Extracting /XFree86/Xxserv.tgz == Checking for post-release updates ... Checking for optional components to install ... Do you want to install Xfsrv.tgz (font server)? (y/n) [y] y == Extracting /XFree86/Xfsrv.tgz == Do you want to install Xnest.tgz (Nested X server)? (y/n) [y] y == Extracting /XFree86/Xnest.tgz == Do you want to install Xprog.tgz (programmer support)? (y/n) [y] y == Extracting /XFree86/Xprog.tgz == Do you want to install Xprt.tgz (X print server)? (y/n) [y] y == Extracting /XFree86/Xprt.tgz == Do you want to install Xvfb.tgz (Virtual framebuffer X server)? (y/n) [y] y == Extracting /XFree86/Xvfb.tgz == Do you want to install Xf100.tgz (100dpi fonts)? (y/n) [y] y == Extracting /XFree86/Xf100.tgz == Do you want to install Xfscl.tgz (Scaled fonts (Speedo, Type1 and TTF))? (y/n) [y] y == Extracting /XFree86/Xfscl.tgz == Do you want to install Xhtml.tgz (Docs in HTML)? (y/n) [y] y == Extracting /XFree86/Xhtml.tgz == Do you want to install Xps.tgz (Docs in PostScript)? (y/n) [y] y == Extracting /XFree86/Xps.tgz == You appear to have a termcap file: /etc/termcap This should be edited manually to replace the xterm entries with those in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xterm.termcap Note: the new xterm entries are required to take full advantage of new features, but they may cause problems when used with older versions of xterm. A terminal type 'xterm-r6' is included for compatibility with the standard X11R6 version of xterm. You appear to have a terminfo directory: /usr/lib/terminfo New xterm terminfo entries can be installed now. Note: the new xterm entries are required to take full advantage of new features, but they may cause problems when used with older versions of xterm. A terminal type 'xterm-r6' is included for compatibility with the standard X11R6 version of xterm. Do you wish to have the new xterm terminfo entries installed now (y/n)? [n] y Installing new terminfo entries for xterm. On some systems you may get warnings from tic about 'meml' and 'memu'. These warnings can safely be ignored. tic: Can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xterm.terminfo Checking if compatibility links for the FreeType2 library are needed ... Updating the fonts.dir file in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local... Updating the fonts.dir file in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc... If you are going to use rstart and /usr/X11R6/bin isn't in the default path for commands run remotely via rsh, you will need a link to rstartd installed in /usr/bin. Do you wish to have this link installed (y/n)? [n] y Creating link from /usr/X11R6/bin/rstartd to /usr/bin/rstartd Installation complete. As we can see extract worked but gnu-tar is still not found. Has anyone seen this behavior. It makes me thing there is a problem(s) with soft links in cygwin. To get around this does the $TAR have to be used? Why not $EXTRACT? Thanks again _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
