RE: Errors using configure when building packages

2016-10-17 Thread Sinkler, Wharton
To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Errors using configure when building packages On 10/14/2016 1:46 PM, Sinkler, Wharton wrote: > I've got a new Cygwin installation on Win7, which has issues with configure, > the first step of building packages from source (I've seen this with > ImageMagick

Errors using configure when building packages

2016-10-14 Thread Sinkler, Wharton
I've got a new Cygwin installation on Win7, which has issues with configure, the first step of building packages from source (I've seen this with ImageMagick, libtiff and others so it's not specific to the package I'm installing). It seems to sporadically be unable to remove a file

Advice on getting window manager, file manager and simple text editor to work

2014-01-31 Thread Sinkler, Wharton
I'm trying to recreate the look and feel of a standard Unix X Windows system on my PC using Cygwin (something resembling the old CDE, or Redhat in functionality). I've got Cygwin with X11 and openbox running, but a few problems stubbornly unresolved: Openbox doesn't have a dock so if you