On 5 Jul 2004 at 10:47, Knut Virow wrote: > Alan Stewart wrote: (on 03.07.2004) > > As mentioned elsewhere, you can download the precompiled packages from: > > http://aut.dyndns.org/par/ > > and manually put it in the PAR-0.xx directory before making PAR. > > > But if you are Internet connected when you try to make PAR and you don't have a > > compiler install, it should automatically download the package. > > > What is the error you stop on? > > > Alan Stewart > > > The key point seems to be the compiler: Uninstalling it results in > fetching PAR-0.85-*.par, dropping this file to the PAR-0.85 install > directory works fine and the following nmake is good.
As mentioned elsewhere, you could hide the compiler temporarily by renaming the C++ bin dir or renaming the cl.exe or taking the C++ bin dir out of your path. Uninstalling is a little drastic :) > > A new problem shows then with "nmake test": > Every "t/2-pp" test fails until process hangs up with test "t/2-pp 17" > Sometimes (irreproducible) other task quits or hang up too (proxy, > firewall, desktop). > Do you mean running "nmake test" is crashing other parts of your system? If so, something outside of the PAR package must be corrupted. Alan Stewart
