In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Douglas Handy wrote: > To anyone with mercy on a cygwin neophyte who is surrounded by too many trees to > see the forest: > >>the patches work excellently, by the way, thanks for your work!!! > > I confess to being not so blissfully ignorant of how everything works in Cygwin, > and I've been unable to apply the updates to my environment. I'm using Falch > version 2.7.2.0 which I *think* includes the base prc-tools-2.3 updates, though > I'm not completely sure of that either. The Falch installation always did > everything behind the scenes. I'm running WinXp Pro. > > If I start a shell session from the C:\Program Files\Cygwin\bin directory, > m68k-palmos-gdb reports itself as "GNU gdb 5.0" whereas I'd like to get to where > it reports "GNU gdb 5.3-tvo-20031229" so I can do multi-section debugging. >
This (the "GNU gdb 5.0") indicates that you have an older version of prc-tools installed. Mixing different versions is not a good idea (TM). > I'm sure I'm missing something ridicously simple, but when I attempt to run tar, > it always reports a variation of this log of my session: > > C:\Program Files\Cygwin\bin>sh > $ cd /; tar jxvf /MsectGdb2.3-1.tar.bz2 > tar (child): /MsectGdb2.3-1.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory > tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now > tar: Child returned status 2 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > $ > In your shell you go to the Cygwin root directory (cd /). This is normally the C:\Program Files\Cygwin windows directory. Your tar command expects the MsectGdb2.3-1.tar.bz2 file to be there too. It obviously is not, hence the error message. Specify the full Cygwin path to the tar.bz2 file. I would suggest you first update to prc-tools-2.3. Since you seem to have Cygwin in the 'standard' place you can use Cygwin's setup utility as per the instructions on the sourceforge prc-tools windows installation page. > I've tried lots of combinations of forward vs backslash or no slash at all, > putting copies of the *.bz2 file in the directory containing sh.exe or the drive > root directory or Cygwin base directory, and I've tried renaming the file to > various things in case it had to do with the long filename. > > No matter what I've tried, tar always reports "Cannot open: No such file or > directory" following the name of the input file I pass to it as in the example > above. > > Can anyone tell me what I'm missing? How can I verify that Falch 2.7.2.0 is > actually at prc-tools-2.3 level? > > If it helps, most of the m68k*.exe's are timestamped 8/20/2002 at 4:15am, and > m68k-palmos-gcc -v reports "gcc version 2.95.3-kgpd 20010315 (release)" > This is prc-tools-2.2. The 2.3 version has most timestamps at 2003-09-17 > Can this upgrade a Falch installation? > Again first upgrade to prc-tools-2.3, then apply my binaries (or apply my patch for prc-tools-2.2 from the Previous Versions directory) I have used prc-tools-2.3 with FNDS 2.7.2.0 successfully. Ton van Overbeek -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
