Bug in Xinstall.sh

[Ralf Habacker]

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Harold Hunt [ mailto:huntharo@msu.edu ]
> Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 1. August 2001 22:46
> An: Ralf Habacker; Cygwin-Xfree
> Betreff: RE: Bug in Xinstall.sh
>
> Ralf,
>
> Which startup-scripts.tgz?  The one from the mirrors or the new one that I
I've got it from mirrors.rcn.net. Below is the cvs header
# $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/etc/Xinstall.sh,v 1.27 2001/06/06
19:23:16 dawes Exp $

I haved analysed some more details of the bug.

I have linked the dir /download to /cygdrive/c/Dokumente und
Einstellungen/habacker/Eigene Dateien/Daten/Download
and created a sub dir xfree-4.1.0, where the snapshot was downloaded into.

When I start sh Xinstall.sh it reports

<snip>
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 (2)
/cygdrive/c/Dokumente: not found  (1)
Warning: can't detect the bindist version
Checking for required files ...

(1) It seems that in the line, where WDIR="`pwd`" is set, pwd returns the
redirect link instead the symbolic link.

(2) Xinstall.sh contains beginning oin line 900
	chmod +x extract
    This fails

> just posted:
> http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/startup-scripts.tgz (2 KB)
>
> I'd like to know because I did post the new file to the mirror network, but
> I doubt that it has already propagated to the servers yet.
>
> Harold
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> > [ mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Ralf Habacker
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 4:38 PM
> > To: Cygwin-Xfree
> > Subject: Bug in Xinstall.sh
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Today, I have downloaded the current xfree binaries and found, that
> > if the path, from which Xinstall.sh is called, contains spaces, some
> > things in the script goes wrong.
> >
> > Ralf
>
>