On 2013-05-19 13:17-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
Encouraged by that Wine build and test success I would like to install Cygwin on Wine-1.5.19 and try to build and test all the packages I am interested in on the Cygwin/Wine platform. GUI installers that I have tried so far all seem to work well on Wine so I don't anticipate any difficulties with the Cygwin GUI installer.
Hmm. Contrary to my expectations difficulties with that GUI installer for Cygwin occurred for Wine-1.5.19 to the point that the first install was unable to complete the final step of the install (which might not matter since that final step appears to just be cleanup). However, subsequent use of the installer hung a lot earlier in the process due to a pre-existing file it didn't know how to overwrite (perhaps a file that should have been removed by the last cleanup step of the first install). It is possible I could obtain a useful Cygwin installation if I start fresh and specify every package that I need without ever going back to attempt refining the set of packages. But that is pretty inconvenient so I will try a later version of wine first to see if that takes care of some/all of these installer issues. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
