RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Archive names and installation process now follow XFree86 standard

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

You must download extract.exe.bz2, unbzip2 and put it somewhere in your PATH
and best create a symlink to it

ln -s extract.exe gnu-tr
.  Extract.exe is a highly modified, by Xfree86 Inc, GNU tar.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Travis Howell [mailto:kirben@optushome.com.au] 
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 7:11 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@xfree.cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Archive names and installation 
> process now follow XFree86 standard
> 
> 
> I'm using Cygwin 1.3.2 on Windows 2000 (Service Pack 2), 
> Cygwin is installed
> in C:/Cygwin/
> I didn't have any success at all with the new install 
> process, I followed
> exact intructions in your user guide but the script just fails mostly:
> BTW why not just modify cygwin's setup.exe to allow simple 
> download, install
> and setup through gui ?
> The script output is below:
> Administrator@CO3007967-A /
> $ ./Xinstall.sh
> 
>                 Welcome to the XFree86 4.1.0 installer
> 
> You are strongly advised to backup your existing XFree86 installation
> before proceeding.  This includes the /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11
> directories.  The installation process will overwrite existing files
> in those directories, and this may include some configuration files
> that may have been customised.
> 
> If you are installing a version different from 4.1.0, you
> may need an updated version of this installer script.
> 
> Do you wish to continue? (y/n) [n] y
> 
> Checking which OS you're running...
> uname reports 'CYGWIN_NT-5.0' version '1.3.2(0.39/3/2)', architecture
> 'i686'.
> 
> chmod: changing permissions of `extract': No such file or directory
> //gnu-tar: not found
> Warning: can't detect the bindist version
> Checking for required files ...
> 
> Creating /usr/X11R6
> Creating /usr/X11R6/lib
> Creating /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
> 
> Removing some old directories that are no longer required...
> 
> Creating /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
> Extracting Xetc.tgz into a temporary location ...
> //extract: not found
> Installing the app-defaults config files ...
> //gnu-tar: not found
> //gnu-tar: not found
> Installing the fs config files ...
> //gnu-tar: not found
> //gnu-tar: not found
> Installing the lbxproxy config files ...
> //gnu-tar: not found
> //gnu-tar: not found
> Installing the proxymngr config files ...
> //gnu-tar: not found
> //gnu-tar: not found
> Installing the rstart config files ...
> //gnu-tar: not found
> //gnu-tar: not found
> Installing the twm config files ...
> //gnu-tar: not found//gnu-tar: not found
> 
> Installing the xdm config files ...
> //gnu-tar: not found
> //gnu-tar: not found
> Installing the xinit config files ...
> //gnu-tar: not found
> //gnu-tar: not found
> Installing the xsm config files ...
> //gnu-tar: not found
> //gnu-tar: not found
> Installing the xserver config files ...
> //gnu-tar: not found
> //gnu-tar: not found
> Installing the XftConfig config file ...
> + cp -p .etctmp/XftConfig /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XftConfig
> cp: cannot stat `.etctmp/XftConfig': No such file or directory
> 
> Installing the mandatory parts of the binary distribution
> 
> //extract: not found
> //extract: not found
> //extract: not found
> //extract: not found
> //extract: not found
> //extract: not found
> //extract: not found
> Checking for post-release updates ...
> Checking for optional components to install ...
> Do you want to install Xfsrv.tgz (font server)? (y/n) [y]
>