[m-rev.] trivial diff: warn abuot WinZip in release.html
Fergus Henderson
fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Tue Feb 11 15:58:27 AEDT 2003
Estimated hours taken: 0.25
Branches: main
w3/download/include/release.inc:
Add a warning about the use of WinZip for the Mingw distribution.
Workspace: /home/ceres/fjh/mercury
Index: w3/download/include/release.inc
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/w3/download/include/release.inc,v
retrieving revision 1.31
diff -u -d -r1.31 release.inc
--- w3/download/include/release.inc 4 Feb 2003 04:45:22 -0000 1.31
+++ w3/download/include/release.inc 11 Feb 2003 04:57:19 -0000
@@ -261,6 +261,8 @@
(That is, it's a cross-compiler from Cygwin to native Windows.)
To install, open a Cygwin bash shell, and do
<pre>unzip -d / mercury-compiler-0.11.0.i686-pc-mingw.zip</pre>
+ Note that you <strong>must</strong> use the Cygwin unzip program,
+ not WinZip. "WinZip" doesn't handle Cygwin's symbolic links properly.
<p>
<dt>x86 machines running Linux (ELF executable format, libc 6.2)
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