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To: "Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: Who is configuring and compiling the Windows native client?
From: "Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 00:28:29 +0000 (GMT)

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> I try to follow directions 1 through 6 very anally - same commands, same
> paths, same directory names.
...
> Installing the Runtime and Development *BINARY* distributions (not
> source) of GTK+ 2.2.4.1 to C:\mingw destroys the MinGW GCC installation.
> GCC is completely deleted from the system; the directions as given are
> not a good procedure. I suppose GTK2 packaging has changed since the
> directions were written?

I must admit I didn't believe this could be true. But it is true - the
most recent GTK runtime install deletes, recursively!, anything at the
target directory!

The horror.

I've sent the author of the package a bug report. I really hope this is a
mistake and not a deliberate policy.

  - Per



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