Build/Compile Enviroment for Microsoft Vista & GNUCash

[Derek Atkins]

Another option is to change your $PATH to put the cygwin unzip
before the msys unzip.  Or maybe just copy the cygwin unzip
into your msys environment?

-derek

"Stephen Grant brown" <s_g_brown at bemail.com.au> writes:

> Dear Sirs/Madams
>
> I am getting very frustrated, but not with you guys.
>
> My latest drama is that the unzip program installed by Packaging/install.sh does not work.
>
> For example the command
>
> unzip -q -o /c/Users/Public/GNUCash_Downloads/readline-5.1-lib.zip -d /c/soft/readline
>
>>From the msys command line fails.
>
> The command
>
> unzip -q -o /cygdrive/c/Users/Public/GNUCash_Downloads/readline-5.1-lib.zip -d /cygdrive//c/soft/readline
>
>>From the cygwin command line works.
>
> I then went back into msys and rerun install.sh and it went on to the next download, unzip where it failed again.
>
> One option is to remove cygwin but I do nott wish to do this at this point in time.
>
> Another option is to butcher Packagin/* to use the cygwin unzip but I do not know where to start, or am not prepared to put the time in to do this.
>
> Another option is to download the source for unzip, configure/make/install and use that unzip.
>
> A third option is to find out why unzip is not working in msys.
>
> I have 
>
> cd  /c/Users/Public/GNUCash_Downloads
> unzip -t /c/Users/Public/GNUCash_Downloads/readline-5.1-lib.zip
>
>>From the msys command prompt and it fails (like all the rest) by bringing up the help instructions.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Yours Sincerely Stephen Grant Brown
>
>
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