Re: Re: Trouble compiling on cygwin

On 28-Nov-2003 Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> I updated cygwin and gcc along with their dependent packages to the most
> recent version and that almost did the trick.  I can compile now but hit
> another problem when doing 'make install'in that neither user nor group
> 'news' exist for my Cygwin system on Windows98. There seems to be no
> command adduser or addgroup for Cygwin according to Google.  Can I tell
> configure.sh to use another user?

I'm glad to hear your compile now succeeds. I just tried a Cygwin build and it
worked fine for me too. I also get the 'no such user' problem on 'make install'.

Right now you can't tell configure to use another user/group. I think you
should be able to so that 'make install' will complete, so I've added that as a
bug to the Noffle bug list at SourceForge.

I tried carrying on, completing the install by hand and specifying the noffle
user and group (noffle-user and noffle-group) in /etc/noffle.conf. First of all
I uncovered a very embarassing brown paper bag bug - noffle-group wasn't
setting the group but the user! I've fixed this and a subsequent error message
problem in CVS. You'll need this fix to proceed (sorry).

I've now got noffle collecting groups from upstream, at least. Here's what I
did:

1. Complete the install. Create /var/spool/noffle, /var/spool/noffle/data,
   /var/spool/noffle/lock, /var/spool/noffle/requested,
   /var/spool/noffle/outgoing, /var/spool/noffle/overview.
   Copy noffle.conf.example to /etc/noffle.conf.

2. Add config items 'noffle-user' = Your user name and 'noffle-group'
   as 'None'. I couldn't find any way of running as a user other than
   None. Someone who knows Cygwin might know better.

Once I'd done that, noffle would collect groups (noffle --query groups) from
upstream and will run as a server. I haven't tried installing inetd or xinet on
Cygwin yet for a complete setup.

-- 
Jim Hague - [email protected]          Never trust a computer you can't lift.


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