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Re: scx-0.2 on cygwin

To: marcus@crestani.de
Subject: Re: scx-0.2 on cygwin
From: "Brian D. Carlstrom" <bdc@carlstrom.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 14:20:20 -0700
Cc: scsh-users@scsh.net
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Reply-to: "Brian D. Carlstrom" <bdc@carlstrom.com>
Marcus Crestani writes:
 > In pkg-def.scm make is called with the variable DESTDIR set to one forward 
 > slash "/". This causes the additional slash in the mkdir call in c/Makefile: 
 > $(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(libsysdir).
 > 
 > In pkg-def.scm the call (get-option-value 'dest-dir) is used to set the 
 > variable (see l. 20).
 > 
 > After removing (get-option-value 'dest-dir) I was able to install scx. Then 
 > load.scm got generated, there was no heap overflow!

So is this an scx bug? or something more general affecting packages on cygwin?

 > BTW: To run scx, you'll need heap-images, which is part of sunterlib-0.6.

Is there anyway for the scx package to tell its dependencies to the
installer so that the installer can validate the rqeuirements?

-bri

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