installing on Cygwin

2011-05-05 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I tried installing on cygwin. After successfully configuring make, I get the following error: Riccardo Mottola@saruman /home/multix/modules/core/make $ make install make: *** /home/Riccardo: Is a directory. Stop. I configured with the following options $ ./configure --with-layout

Re: installing on Cygwin

2011-05-06 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 5 May 2011, at 18:56, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > I tried installing on cygwin. After successfully configuring make, I get the > following error: > > Riccardo Mottola@saruman /home/multix/modules/core/make > $ make install > make: *** /home/Riccardo: Is a

Re: installing on Cygwin

2011-05-06 Thread Nicola Pero
> The alternative is to go through gnustep-make rewriting everything > to handle paths/filenames with spaces, and possibly then go through > all makefiles everywhere doing the same. It's not that easy. The make grammar uses whitespace in a way that doesn't allow easy workarounds. Whoever designe

Re: installing on Cygwin

2011-05-06 Thread Ivan Vučica
> Hi, > > I tried installing on cygwin. After successfully configuring make, I get the > following error: > > Riccardo Mottola@saruman /home/multix/modules/core/make > $ make install > make: *** /home/Riccardo: Is a directory. Stop. > > I configured with the f

Re: installing on Cygwin

2011-05-06 Thread Truls Becken
Ivan Vučica wrote: > Try creating symlink /home/riccardo and then modifying HOME > environment variable to that path. > > Cygwin should support symlinks. If it doesn't, then I guess you'll have > to create a directory and move cygwin-related stuff to that new home. NTFS can do this on its own, wi

Re: installing on Cygwin

2011-05-09 Thread Ivan Vučica
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 00:22, Truls Becken wrote: > > NTFS can do this on its own, without any cygwin hacks. On Vista and 7 > you have full support for symlinks, while on XP you have NTFS junction > points. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link > I'd find it more tasteful to use Cy