RE: Problems compiling grep and friends

2007-10-05 Thread Siegfried Heintze
Dave, I'm not sure what to do. I see you attached a diffs file. Is there a utility such as patch that I can use to apply those diffs? What would be the command? Thanks, Siegfried On 04 October 2007 22:13, Siegfried Heintze wrote: Siegfried wrote: OK, I tried that. See below for the results.

RE: Problems compiling grep and friends

2007-10-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 October 2007 23:16, Siegfried Heintze wrote: Dave, I'm not sure what to do. I see you attached a diffs file. Is there a utility such as patch that I can use to apply those diffs? What would be the command? There's a utility *exactly* such as patch that you can use to apply those

RE: Problems compiling grep and friends

2007-10-04 Thread Siegfried Heintze
Siegfried wrote: OK, I tried that. See below for the results. Looks like we have the same problem. Thanks, Siegfried Brian wrote: So as a workaround, try make install DESTDIR=/ which would result in ///foo/bar which is the POSIX-sanctioned way of dealing with filesystems that reserve // for

RE: Problems compiling grep and friends

2007-10-04 Thread Dave Korn
On 04 October 2007 22:13, Siegfried Heintze wrote: Siegfried wrote: OK, I tried that. See below for the results. Looks like we have the same problem. mkdir //usr mkdir: cannot create directory `//usr': No such host or network path mkdir //usr/local mkdir: cannot create directory

RE: Problems compiling grep and friends

2007-10-03 Thread Siegfried Heintze
On 27 September 2007 14:15, Siegfried Heintze wrote: I'm running xp pro and I am trying to compile grep. I downloaded the source. ./configure seemed to go OK but there were problems with make. It looks like it cannot find the usr directory. Is there a fix for this? How did you configure?

RE: Problems compiling grep and friends

2007-10-03 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Siegfried Heintze wrote on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 12:23 PM: On 27 September 2007 14:15, Siegfried Heintze wrote: Is there a cygpath command that will show me all the files connected with grep? What is this command? Should not I have been able to manually find some notes on compiling

Re: Problems compiling grep and friends

2007-10-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Siegfried Heintze wrote: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/grep-2.5.1a-4/po' if test -r .././mkinstalldirs; then \ .././mkinstalldirs //usr/local/share; \ else \ /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs //usr/local/share; \ fi mkdir //usr mkdir: cannot create

RE: Problems compiling grep and friends

2007-09-27 Thread Dave Korn
On 27 September 2007 14:15, Siegfried Heintze wrote: I’m running xp pro and I am trying to compile grep. I downloaded the source. ./configure seemed to go OK but there were problems with “make”. It looks like it cannot find the usr directory. Is there a fix for this? How did you configure?