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Re: Making wget
- To: David Robinow <drobinow at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: Re: Making wget
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:22:17 -0500
- Cc: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20000126164708.6905.qmail@web2101.mail.yahoo.com>
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 08:47:08AM -0800, David Robinow wrote:
>--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 09:38:59AM -0000, Norling, Gunnar wrote:
>>>Some days ago there where a discussion involving the wget program. ...
>
>>Why not just download one of the prebuilt versions???
>
>I find this strange, especially considering the source. Isn't Cygwin
>supposed to be a development environment?
Sure. Are you a developer? If so, then these problems are not
insurmountable and probably only require some investigation of the
source. Feel free to offer him some advice.
I didn't want to take time to figure out what was going on and suggested
a much faster way of getting wget on his system than doing a
1. configure
2. make
3. What??? HELP!!!!
4. Wait for someone on the mailing list to look at the source and figure
out what was going wrong.
cgf
> As I reported Monday
>./configure; make
>worked for me. (make install did not but I don't expect that)
>
>I'm running gcc-2.95 with the 1/15/99 snapshot on NT 4.0
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