Hi,
I then tried the cygnus distribution (where Jan got me wrong on the directories
issue : I suggested sticking with windows type installation directory structure
even though I agreed that Unix type makes more sense for normal use of Unix
packages).
It would be nice to name the setup.zip something more explicit like
lilypond-1.3.41-setup.zip or some such.
Comments on the distribution :
I got rpm to respond by changing [echo > rpmrc] into [touch rpmrc] (after having
deleted the file) otherwise it disregarded me with something like [Failed to
read rpmrc: error 0.].
Now rpm responds but not very favoroubly I'm afraid.
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$ rpm --root $ROOT --rcfile rpmrc --initdb
+ rpm --root /PROGRAM/LilyPond-1.3.41 --rcfile rpmrc --initdb
failed to open /PROGRAM/LilyPond-1.3.41/var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm: No such file
or directory
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Yes, I am sticking with windows directory in my windows world, sorry for your
nice and coherent ethic. Still that should not prevent the thing from working
should it ?
This file indeed was not part of the setup.zip package. Should it have been ?
If I try the next command it simply tells me that it cannot install the packages
:
error: rpm-3.0.4-1.i686-cygwin.rpm cannot be installed
error: guile-1.3.4-1.i686-cygwin.rpm cannot be installed
error: lilypond-1.3.41.jcn3-1.i686-cygwin.rpm cannot be installed
Now I changed the cygwin1.dll manually (a much nicer dll by the way, not the 5MB
one !) - and it does not seem to cause problems to bash so far but I did not do
anything fancy yet, like compiling and stuff, though it should really be OK as I
mainly use mingw32.
That's it for now, I'm not sure what the next step is. Please advise and I'll
act.
Regards,
Alain.
