Log message for revision 41281: Fixed typo in new notes. Removed ancient info about wrestling with Win98SE.
Changed: U Zope/branches/tim-2.9-windows-installer/inst/WinBuilders/README.txt -=- Modified: Zope/branches/tim-2.9-windows-installer/inst/WinBuilders/README.txt =================================================================== --- Zope/branches/tim-2.9-windows-installer/inst/WinBuilders/README.txt 2006-01-11 20:07:15 UTC (rev 41280) +++ Zope/branches/tim-2.9-windows-installer/inst/WinBuilders/README.txt 2006-01-11 20:17:37 UTC (rev 41281) @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ Quick instructions: -The buildout has been tested under Windows 2K and XP Pro SP2. It "almost -works" on Win98SE (see bottom of file for discussion). +The buildout has been tested under Windows 2K and XP Pro SP2. Setup Environment @@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ & messy process on Windows. So python.mk just copies them from an installed Python instead. Cautions: -- If you didn't accept the Python's installer's default directory, or if +- If you didn't accept the Python installer's default directory, or if you did but it's on a different drive, you'll need to change WIN_PYINSTALLEDDIR in python.mk. @@ -142,24 +141,3 @@ root of your Cygwin installation -- the same thing the Cygwin shell desktop shortcut resolves to, so you can get the exact path by looking at the icon's Properties). - - -Win98SE notes -------------- - -- Every time a makefile runs xcopy, there's a segfault in kernel32.dll, - which hangs the bash shell with an endless succession of error boxes. - The only way I found to break out of this was to bring up the debugger, - close it, then type Ctrl+C at the hung bash shell. The bash shell - appears to be fine at that point, but you can never close it (short of - killing it via the task manager). - Same thing if xcopy32 is used instead. - xcopy works OK directly from a bash shell. The segfaults occur if it's - run via a makefile, or via a shell script. Guessing a problem with I/O - redirection, since some other apps can't see keyboard input before the - hung stuff is killed. - - Workaround: xxcopy works fine <http://www.xxcopy.com/>; free for - personal use, but not for commercial use. Rename it to xcopy.exe and - get it into your path before the native xcopy, or fiddle the XCOPY - defn in common.mk to use xxcopy instead of xcopy. _______________________________________________ Zope-Checkins maillist - Zope-Checkins@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-checkins