Re: Unable to install X on 64-bit Windows 7 Premium

2010-08-15 Thread Andy Koppe
On 15 August 2010 18:32, Dan Tsafrir wrote: >> I've done exactly this, then tried to install some X stuff and got: >> >>    Package: xinit >>            xinit.sh exit code 8 >>    Package: No package >>            xinit.sh exit code 8 >> > > It turns out that the above error message is generated by

Re: Unable to install X on 64-bit Windows 7 Premium

2010-08-15 Thread Dan Tsafrir
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 04:03, Dan Tsafrir wrote: > > I've done exactly this, then tried to install some X stuff and got: > >    Package: xinit >            xinit.sh exit code 8 >    Package: No package >            xinit.sh exit code 8 > It turns out that the above error message is generated by

Re: Unable to install X on 64-bit Windows 7 Premium

2010-08-14 Thread Dan Tsafrir
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 15:12, Jon TURNEY wrote: > On 10/08/2010 00:19, Bob Kline wrote: >> >> I finally had to replace my ancient Windows XP box, and ended up with a >> Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit system. If I run setup.exe to install a >> fresh >> cygwin, it succeeds as long as I don't touch t

Re: Unable to install X on 64-bit Windows 7 Premium

2010-08-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Bob Kline wrote: On 8/10/2010 8:12 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: I'm a bit surprised that gcc4 is a dependency of X. It's a dependency of imake, which is a member of the XWin set. imake uses the C preprocessor... -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-

Re: Unable to install X on 64-bit Windows 7 Premium

2010-08-11 Thread Bob Kline
On 8/10/2010 8:12 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: I'm a bit surprised that gcc4 is a dependency of X. It's a dependency of imake, which is a member of the XWin set. -- Bob Kline mailto:bkl...@rksystems.com http://www.rksystems.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Pro

Re: Unable to install X on 64-bit Windows 7 Premium

2010-08-10 Thread Bob Kline
On 8/10/2010 11:49 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: and since all xinit.sh does is run mkshortcut to create a start menu shortcut, I'd guess this is the same issue as [1], assuming we don't have a cygutils release with that fixed yet. [1] http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-03/msg00357.html Right. As

Re: Unable to install X on 64-bit Windows 7 Premium

2010-08-10 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 10/08/2010 13:12, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 10/08/2010 00:19, Bob Kline wrote: I finally had to replace my ancient Windows XP box, and ended up with a Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit system. If I run setup.exe to install a fresh cygwin, it succeeds as long as I don't touch the X11 set, leaving it at

Re: Unable to install X on 64-bit Windows 7 Premium

2010-08-10 Thread Bob Kline
On 8/10/2010 11:16 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: Bob, FYI, I've been running Cygwin 1.7x and latest X on Win 7 Pro 64-bit and not problems setting up or running. In other words, it works right out of the box. Thanks for the data point, Jim. The two possible explanations that come to mind f

Re: Unable to install X on 64-bit Windows 7 Premium

2010-08-10 Thread Bob Kline
On 8/10/2010 8:12 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: gcc4-core.sh exit code 126 This one is already reported at [1], and the workaround given there,i.e. Thanks for your reply. I had seen that report, but was dismayed to see that the poster had received no response to his questions about whether t

Re: Unable to install X on 64-bit Windows 7 Premium

2010-08-10 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 10/08/2010 00:19, Bob Kline wrote: I finally had to replace my ancient Windows XP box, and ended up with a Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit system. If I run setup.exe to install a fresh cygwin, it succeeds as long as I don't touch the X11 set, leaving it at Default (which is to say, don't install

Unable to install X on 64-bit Windows 7 Premium

2010-08-09 Thread Bob Kline
I finally had to replace my ancient Windows XP box, and ended up with a Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit system. If I run setup.exe to install a fresh cygwin, it succeeds as long as I don't touch the X11 set, leaving it at Default (which is to say, don't install anything in the set). If I chang