cygwin-xfree 4.2.0 installation problem

Alan Hourihane alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk
Mon Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 2002


There is no ldconfig on Cygwin.

You set the PATH enviroment up to point to /usr/X11R6/bin

Alan.

On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:42:32PM -0500, egon.phillips@sympatico.ca wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install cygwin/XFree86. I have run into trouble during the last 
> two steps of the installation procedure, contained in the following document.
> 
> Installation Details for XFree86[tm] 4.2.0
> The XFree86 Project, Inc
> 16 January 2002, Abstract
> (AKA INSTALL)
> 
> Development Environment
> Win 2K, cygwin 1.3.10, Visual C++ EE, Progres 7.2
> 
> Here is the output from the final two steps:
> .........
> 
> admin@BigRed@GOONMUNSTER /home/TEMP
> $ /sbin/ldconfig /usr/X11R6/lib # For Linux
> bash: /sbin/ldconfig: No such file or directory
> 
> admin@BigRed /home/TEMP
> $ /sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/X11R6/lib # For FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
> bash: /sbin/ldconfig: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> Can someone tell us how to solve this problem without compiling any code?
> 
> Is the ldconfig utility somewhere in the cygwin distribution? If not where can 
> we get a binary?
> 
> 
> Thanx Egon.



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