Compiling GNUCash under Vista (again)

[Derek Atkins]

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

> Hi Derek,
>
> I have opened msys, and done a env command. The path enviroment
> variable has a few relative ones like bin, mingw\bin (I think) and
> then the windows ones, nothing to do with cygwin.
>
> I had installed a couple of copies of msys into  various
> directories. I deleted them all to start again. When i reinstalled
> msys it finished without installing the msys.bat file. I then did a
> search from the start menu and found the msys.bat files I had just
> deleted.
>
> I suspect that the index of files that Vista maintains had not been
> been given enough time to be updated, and that install.sh was being
> told files existed when in fact they have been deleted.

That's certainly possible, I guess.  I know nothing about vista
filesystem caching.  We did add a delay in install.sh to try to
fix some event notification issues; are you sure you're using
the most up to date install.sh script from SVN?

-derek
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