Packages installer doesn't work + other weirdiness

Jani> Compiling won't succees without --without-msw because Jani> configure try linking against winspool library. (This is Jani> Linux machnine) This is a known problem, I think, very recently reported. You have Wine installed, no? Please provide the config.log up to that point. This will help us see if we need to make further tests (there was a different library cited in earlier reports, if they are the same problem). I believe we know how to deal with it, but I haven't gotten around to looking at those patches for application to 21.4 yet. Probably will be in 21.4.4. Jani> The package autoinstaller won't work: Jani> (1) (error/warning) Error in process filter: (ftp-error FTP Jani> Error: DIR failed: 500 Illegal PORT command.) Possibly you're using an FTP client (seems unlikely in Red Hat 6.2, but you could check) that EFS doesn't know about or an ancient EFS. If you're behind a firewall, configuring EFS to tell FTP to use passive mode might help. Finally, there have been recent reports of new problems with EFS, but I think they are only for the version in pre-test. The long-term fix is to provide alternative transports (HTTP, wget, etc) for the packages, but this is not done yet. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."