rdesktop build on cygwin gone wrong

jose isaias cabrera jicman@cinops.xerox.com
Thu May 12 14:05:00 GMT 2005


thanks.

josé

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Rothenberger" <daveroth@acm.org>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Cc: <rdesktop-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: rdesktop build on cygwin gone wrong


> On 5/11/2005 4:07 PM, jose isaias cabrera wrote:
>>
>> Sorry for the cross-post, but...
>>
>> Ok, so I downloaded rdesktop 1.4.1 to build it with cygwin on a WinXP
>> Pro machine.  And on the "make install", I am getting this error:
>>
>> jic 16:32:18-> make install
>> mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
>> /usr/bin/install -c rdesktop /usr/local/bin
>> strip /usr/local/bin/rdesktop
>> strip: /usr/local/bin/rdesktop: No such file or directory
>> make: *** [installbin] Error 1
>>
>> I've tried it a few times and I still get the the same problem.  Here is
>> the interesting part: rdesktop works and the man page also.  Huh!
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> It's because the makefile really needs to invoke "strip
> /usr/local/bin/rdesktop.exe" Strip just removes any debugging symbols,
> so the executable without the strip will work fine, it just might be
> larger than you need.
>
> To fix the problem, you can apply the supplied patch, or just run "strip
> /usr/local/bin/rdesktop.exe".
>
>
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> diff -u -r -N rdesktop-1.4.1-orig/Makefile.in rdesktop-1.4.1/Makefile.in
> --- rdesktop-1.4.1-orig/Makefile.in 2005-05-04 13:32:16.000000000 -0700
> +++ rdesktop-1.4.1/Makefile.in 2005-05-11 16:51:21.781750000 -0700
> @@ -55,8 +55,7 @@
> .PHONY: installbin
> installbin: rdesktop
>  mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)
> - $(INSTALL) rdesktop $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)
> - strip $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/rdesktop
> + $(INSTALL) -s rdesktop $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)
>  chmod 755 $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/rdesktop
>
> .PHONY: installman
> 



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