On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Martyn Plummer wrote: > I had the same problem as Tony with multiple copies of cygwin1.dll. But > doesn't this solution (renaming cygwin1.dll in the tools directory) just > link the tools with the cygwin1.dll that comes with cygwin? In which > case will it work if the tools are linked against a different version of > the cygwin1 library?
It may or it may not. At least some cygwin1.dll's are broken and cause tar to malfunction. I don't uninstall cygwin, but I do ensure that its path is not mounted, since if it thinks there is a /bin/cygwin1.dll or /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll it complains, even if that is really C:/packages/usr/bin/cygwin1.dll and not in your path. > To answer Jeff's question > > > > if($WINDOWS) { > > ## workaround for paths in Cygwin tar > > $filepath =~ s+^([A-Za-x]):+/cygdrive/\1+; > > } > > > > in the build script and don't think it needs to be there since you can > > use the tar utility that comes with mingw, yes? > > You're talking about the tar that comes with MSYS. And no you can't use > it because it can't handle symbolic links, a problem that is discussed > in the documentation. That's not the only problem I have met with MSYS's tar, if that is what was meant. It often had problems for me in the middle of .tar.gz archives that other systems are happy with. I do know how to solve this, but I am not going to put the effort in to do so. So the situation will remain `follow the instructions or don't ask for help'. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel