- From: Andreas Seidl <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Subject: [PARTLY SOLVED] Re: Problems with cygwin install
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 20:46:20 +0200 (CEST)
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Joseph Coffey wrote:
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Removing the native port from my system eliminated this last error. Now
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I am just having trouble connecting to the xserver., however I suspect I
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can figure this out if I just undo everythig I did properly. I will let
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Joe Coffey
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Andreas Seidl wrote:
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>>I'm sorry to write you directly, however for reasons I don't understand
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>Have you subscribed to:
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>http://lists.texmacs.org/wws/arc/texmacs-users
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>>I am having difficulties
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>>installing the cygwin ditribution of Texmacs via the instructions on
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>>when I attempted to run texmacs from the cygwin prompt I got:
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>>exec: texmacs.bin not found
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>>Then I went and executed texmacs.bin directly. As one might expect it
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>>complained that the TexMacs Path was not sent correctly. So I opened up
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>>the texmacs "calling script (which sets the paths and then attempts to
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>>exec texmacs.bin.) in an editor and removed all of the "if"'s on the
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>>assumption that somehow the previous installation of the native port had
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>>confused this script. (I'm afraid I don't know what that z's in those
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>>lines do I am assuming its checking to see if the path is already set or
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>man bash reveals:
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>>PATH="$TEXMACS_BIN_PATH/bin:$PATH"
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>>LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$TEXMACS_BIN_PATH/lib${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+":$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"}"
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>>exec texmacs.bin "$@" < /dev/null
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>>I typed temxacs& (which calls this calling script no?)
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>which texmacs
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>Could somebody who is involved with the native TeXmacs Windows port verify
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>>At any rate this caused the following message:
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>>Error in procedure make-struct-layout:
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>>Error: wrong type of argument in position 1 (expecting STRINGP): pw
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>>I installed the 1.039 from your site. I also tried the version at the
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>>cygwin site. possible complicating issues:
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>>i have a copy of TexLIve installed
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>I don't know about this one.
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>>I use the STarNet x server. It works. The same problems are
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>I run StarNet's X-Win32 as well without problems.
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>>I have a copy of the native windows
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>>Thank you for your kind assistance,
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>>Joseph Coffey
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>>Courant Institute of Mathematical Science
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>Best Regards,
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>Andreas Seidl
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>http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~seidl
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Best Regards,
Andreas Seidl
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http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~seidl
- [PARTLY SOLVED] Re: Problems with cygwin install, Andreas Seidl, 06/04/2004
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