DSSS and Rebuild 0.63 released.

Gregor Richards Richards at codu.org
Sat Apr 21 10:58:43 PDT 2007


Bill Baxter wrote:
> 
> Is installing to a different volume than C: supposed to work on Windows?
> I'm getting this weird error trying to do a dsss install as per the 
> instructions here: 
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/browser/trunk/docs/README.use
> 
> -------
> F:\usr\pkg\Dlang>dsss install --prefix=c:/usr/pkg/Dlang/dsss
> Installing DD-dmd
> + making directory F:\usr\pkg\Dlang\c:/usr/pkg/Dlang/dsss\lib
> Error: F:\usr\pkg\Dlang\c:: The filename, directory name, or volume 
> label syntax is incorrect.
> -------

That's really strange ... I'm suspecting that it doesn't know that 
that's a fully-qualified path, because of the slashes? Try backslashes. 
If that fixes it, submit a ticket and I'll make it a bit less sensitive.


> 
> 
> It looks like the F: drive bit is causing it trouble.
> 
> Anyway, do I really need to dsss install to use dsss on Windows?  It 
> seems to do basic stuff ok just by putting the bin dir on my PATH.

The only feature that /requires/ installation it is 'dsss net'.

> 
> --bb

  - Gregor Richards



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