[Coco] ack!

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 20:25:20 -0400 (EDT)
Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:

> 
> Christopher,
> I did that and it worked. Now the step 7. "make" cmd gives nothing
> but "can't find directory" errors and ultimately fails.
> 
> All went pretty well up to this point.
> As I said, I got a LOT of warnings in the lwtools installation.
> something about referencing "char"
> 
> Also, when installing cygwin, at the end of the installation I got 
> 
> Postinstall script errors:
> Package: cygutils
>     cygutils.sh exit code 127
> 
> and I have no idea if this has anything to do with it.

Bill:

	I have (thankfully) never used cygwin. So I don't know if the
export command in step 7 will work. If it's enough like a real unix,
then that command should set the environment variable NITROS9DIR and
    echo $NITROS9DIR
should print the current directory (and the make command should find all
the directories).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher R. Hawks <chawks at dls.net>
> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sun, Jun 2, 2013 8:03 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] ack!
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 19:11:57 -0400 (EDT)
> Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Lothan,
> > So far all has gone well up to step 6 with the exception of a ton of
> > "warnings" in the lwtools build. No errors though. I may have missed
> > a support file as that part wasn't explained thoroughly. i.e. step 1
> > "etc..." When one knows NOTHING of the system, "etc.." is absolutely
> > useless. A full list is needed as to what needs to be included. The
> > Cygwin installation was painless, but not knowing "what" to include
> > as "etc." isn't a Cygwin option. It's these kind of instructions
> > that killed OS-9 for newbies in the 80s and 90s. I'm not saying you
> > were not helpful or that I'm the average unknowledgable user, but
> > when details matter, they should be included. I just downloaded the
> > defaults as I didn't know what else to include. I already had
> > Mercurial installed on my system from a previous attempt at creating
> > my own repository for something else. I assumed it would work and it
> > did. I don't know if I missed anything else.
> > 
> > Here's what I get in step 6.
> > 
> > This works fine:
> > hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/nitros9/code nitros9
> > 
> > This gives an error:
> > hg update lwtools-port
> > "abort: no repository found in 'c:/cygwin/home/username' (.hg not
> > found)"
> > 
> > So what am I doing wrong here?
> 
> Bill:
> 
> 	You need to change to the nitros9 directory before the update.
> 
> 
> Christopher R. Hawks
> HAWKSoft




Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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