Re: [lmi] Working around a libarchive anomaly

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 01:01:15 +0000 Greg Chicares <address@hidden> wrote:

GC> On 2017-08-21 00:35, Greg Chicares wrote:
GC> [...]
GC> > I hope we can abandon gcc-4.9 and just use 6.3 for lmi: 6.3 seems to
GC> > work perfectly well in a cygwin VM here, and we'll soon know whether
GC> > that means it works in the office as well (as it certainly should).
GC> 
GC> BTW, to extract MinGW-w64's gcc-6.3 archive without upgrading cygwin
GC> (thus, without upgrading 'bsdtar' or installing 'p7zip'), this is the
GC> temporary workaround I tested:
GC> 
GC> cd /cache_for_lmi/downloads/
GC> wget http://www.7-zip.org/a/7z1604.exe
GC> chmod +x /cache_for_lmi/downloads/7z1604.exe
GC> /cache_for_lmi/downloads/7z1604.exe

 Sorry, I think this is not quite right: lmi makefiles look for the x64
version (under "C:/Program Files", not "C:/Program Files (x86)", where the
32 bit version downloaded from the URL above would be installed), so you
need to get http://www.7-zip.org/a/7z1604-x64.exe instead.

 Also, this probably depends on your account permissions and what not, but
I couldn't run the installer directly from the command prompt because it
requires administrator permissions, so I had to do "cygstart 7z1604-x64.exe"
to launch it (clicking on the file in Explorer would surely have worked too,
but this is too bothersome, of course...).

 Regards,
VZ