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RE: Cygwin and Windows ME don't like each other
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: <tdgi at lycos dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 14:19:14 +1000
- Subject: RE: Cygwin and Windows ME don't like each other
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tdgi [mailto:tdgi@lycos.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 10:58 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Cygwin and Windows ME don't like each other
>
>
> I've been using Cygwin for about 1/2 a year, on my computer
> at work (Win98SE) I recently got a new computer for home
> that runs WinME. When I tried to install Cygwin, I get the
> error message "can't open (null) for reading" or something
> like that. This error occurs during the installation of the
> following packages:
>
> Autoconf-2.53-1
> Autoconf-devel-2.53-1
> automake-1.6a-1
> automake-devel-1.6-1
> bison-1.35-1
> libpng-1.0.13-3
>
> Anyway, despite the messages, I manage to get most of the
> stuff installed, and it (sort of) works.
Do a 'install from internet' and you should not have any trouble.
Rob
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