Re: wiki/msys questions
Keith Marshall <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.msys |
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| Organization | MinGW Project Administrator |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Saturday 22 November 2008 11:16:14 Stephen Grant Brown wrote: > In msys > > GNUCash@ELSHADAI /mingw > $ tar -tjf /z/gnucash_downloads/m4-1.4.7-MSYS.tar.bz2 > usr/bin/m4.exe Why is your current directory `/mingw'? There is no legitimate reason to ever be working there, unless you are in the process of updating *MinGW* components. > usr/bin is not in path No, but `/usr/bin' is, because MSYS makes `/usr' a loopback mount of `/', and `/bin' *is* in the PATH. > Over which part of the existing installation do I extract it? $ (cd /; tar xjf /path/to/m4-1.4.7-MSYS.tar.bz2) is what you want. Regards, Keith. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/