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Re: [Texmacs-dev] cygwin home page link -- installation problems
From: |
Joris van der Hoeven |
Subject: |
Re: [Texmacs-dev] cygwin home page link -- installation problems |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:12:46 +0100 (MET) |
> > hi all, hi Joris!
> >
> > i think the link at the cygwin page is great news, but:
> >
> > until someone has done a cygwin package - what about the installation
> > problems with where on version 1.0.0.21/22 ? i have only 1.0.0.22 until
> > now, so i know nothing about installing the following versions. if the
> > problems are not solved completely within the installation routines,
> > the link to
> >
> > http://www.texmacs.org/Download/Cygwin.html
> >
> > will probably cause a lot of trouble and unsatisfied testers. That
> > wouldn't be a good advertisment for TeXmacs.
>
> Actually, all most of those problems where related to compiling. Since
> Cygwin distributes (mainly) binary package, they are not relevant.
>
> Also, most of those problems have been fixed (function name, guile1.6,
> etc.). The most important remaning issue is knowing which other
> packages are required by TeXmacs, and which conflict with TeXmacs.
> Exactly what a package would fix.
So it would be great if someone can try to build such a package,
by following the instructions on
http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html
Probably, much of the information you need is already contained
in the .spec file for the TeXmacs rpm, or its Debian equivalent.