Alexey Romanov wrote:
Uwe Siart wrote:
On 13 Feb 2008 at 21:05, Ciaran Taylor wrote:
I'm posting this in case it's useful to users of Windows Vista who now
need to use MSYS to install the latest AUCTeX.
Does this mean Cygwin isn't supposed to work?
Maybe, but ...
On my new PC at home (which runs Windows Vista), I had no problems
with Emacs 22.1 but when I came to install AUCTeX, configure and make
were fine, but make install didn't get very far without being denied
permission. I tried fiddling with permissions on various programs,
but nothing worked. Then I tried enabling the
Administrator account and installing from there: problem solved!
... I'd not consider this a flaw because the messages of 'make' clearly
say: "Now run 'make install' as root".
--
Uwe
Sure, installing as root is natural on *n*x, but it is not entirely
obvious what the Windows equivalent is. In XP all that was necessary was
to run 'make install' from a user account with administrator privileges
(one might think this was equivalent to "run as root") but in Vista this
is not enough: you need to use the Administrator account. This is not
entirely straightforward: the Administrator account is hidden in Vista
(as it was in XP also) so you have to find it and enable it before you
can use it. It took me a while to figure this out, so I thought it
might be helpful to report it.
Anyway, I'm not reporting this as a fault, merely a tip to other Vista
users.
Ciaran.
I've tried to follow your advice with Cygwin, but run into a weird
difficulty:
I get "/bin/sh: command not found". "which sh" shows
/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/sh.
I've replaced /bin/sh with /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/sh everywhere I've found
it.
Now "configure" works (if --disable-preview is used, otherwise it finds
/bin/sh somehow
on the line 4459) and so does "make". "make install" gets me
"/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/sh: ./mkinstalldirs: No such file or directory
make: [install-el] Error 127 (ignored)" two times, then it tries to access a
non-existent directory,
which obviously doesn't work.
All of this only happens under Administrator account -- my own
(administrator) account accesses
./mkinstalldirs all right, but of course "make install" doesn't work.
I have no experience with Cygwin, but I notice that the file
INSTALL.windows says "Avoid `helpful' magic file names like
`/cygdrive/c' and
`C:\PROGRA~1\' like the plague. It is quite unlikely that the scripts
will be able to identify the actual file names involved." I don't
entirely understand what the problem might be with `/cygdrive/c' , but
could your difficulties be something to do with this?
Best regards,
Ciaran.
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