Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Getting clueless win32 users working on a project in arch

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:21:56 -0600
John A Meinel <address@hidden> wrote:

> There is one thing. Are you running on FAT32 or NTFS? 

I'm on winxp.

> If you right click 
> on a drive and say properties, it will tell you the filesystem. 

It says NTFS.

> Not really. The only thing that is really there is the tla binary, and 
> it makes sure that you have some dependencies fulfilled. Are you sure 
> that you have patch, etc installed? 

Bingo, patch was missing. I don't really use Cygwin that much as I
prefer MinGW.

Anyway, it seems to work now, so I'll hammmer on it a bit and see if
its sufficiently stable for the win32 people to use.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers,
Erik
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