[Xastir] readme.win32 file

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

What you had was a corrupted RPM database... Did you, by chance, upgrade 
from a 7.3 or 8.0 system?

gerry

Byron Smith wrote:
> Well, I did a total reload of the RH9.0 system, and since I had lots of 
> GB's to play with, I loaded
> "everything" [abt 4.7 gb out of 32 gb drive - not bad]. I then did the 
> commands as per the Win32 install (setting up the CVS stuff) and it 
> downloaded everything it needed. (smiles every where here!)
> 
> BTW, you might want to consider putting the "setting up the CVS" stuff 
> like you have in the WIN32 file into the regular
> linux/unix install instructions. I see the "touch .cvspass" line was 
> added - but perhaps you need to change
> the "do the 5 lines" to read "6 lines :-)"
> 
> 
> I then did the shell  (.sh) and configure stuff, and I'm running Xastir  
> Yea! :-)
> 
> No issues either  - it just came up and ran...
> 
> -o-
>  From what I can surmise, there was an issue  (in my RH9.0 box) with the 
> RPM program / up2date .
> I would try to delete an RPM ( -e) and it would say it wasn't there.
> Then I tried the (-qa) and it didn't show up either.
>  Then I'd try to force the(or just -i) install the same RPM and it would 
> say it already was installed. grrr! (head pounding on table top)
> 
> Very strange. In any account, I haven't let the rh 9.0 system update any 
> stuff [since the reload] (with redhat's UP2DATE), so its still working. ;-)
> 
> Maybe someday I'll look into the Perl problem on the Win98SE/CYGwin  
> setup in the laptop.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> 
> At 08:41 PM 09/01/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> 
>> Well, after running into problems installing XFree86 stuff on my RH9.0 
>> box (rpm issues), I grabbed a laptop and
>> proceeded to do the CYGwin/Xastir install on it. Dang it, I want to 
>> try Xastir ;-)
>>
>> CYGWIN installed without a hitch. (win98se)
>>
>> I then started following the README.win32 instructions and have found 
>> the following item that perhaps need to be
>> updated. There could be more - I didnt make it past instruction 6. 
>> Please read on.
>>
>>
>> Step 5: mentions hitting "enter" in "order to create a dummy blank 
>> password in your .cvspass file"....
>>
>> 1. There isnt a .cvspass file yet. You must create it "before" you 
>> enter the five command lines.
>>    IF you dont know the VI commands (it reminds me of ED.COM from cp/m 
>> days), Nano is more user friendly.
>>    I went to the /home/<user> area and then typed nano .cvspass
>>    I then did a Control O to "write the file" with an Control X to 
>> exit. Now there is
>>    a file to write the dummy password into.
>>
>> Step 6. This is where xastir gets configured/compiled etc.
>>
>> I invoked cd ~/src/xastir  successfully
>> Then I typed:
>>
>> ./bootstrap.sh
>>
>> Which then showed a couple of names:
>>
>> aclocal
>> autoheader
>>
>> Then I started getting Windows "Perl has caused an invalid page fault 
>> in..." messages
>> pertaining to the following files:
>>
>> cwd.dll
>> io.dll
>> fcntl.dll
>> posix.dll
>> glob.dll
>>
>> Then it repeated the same files again, then added:
>>
>> dumper.dll
>>
>> Then it started repeating the first list with dumper.dll.
>> At this point I figured something is wrong and got out of X. I then 
>> rebooted the machine
>> started X, and then the shell statement again, and got the same exact 
>> Perl page fault errors.
>>
>> Any ideas? Perhaps I wasnt meant to run Xastir. :-(
> 
> 
> 
> Byron Smith
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> 
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> 
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