[EMBOSS] useful hits about install EMBOSS-3.0.0 under cygwin

[ajb at ebi.ac.uk]

Thanks for the post. Some quick comments though.

> 1. Read the HowTo by Olivier Martin
> http://emboss.sourceforge.net/download/cygwin.html

Although there is nothing really inaccurate about the HowTo it does
imply that --without-x is essential. X windows works fine
as long as you've installed it under cygwin. It also suggests
using CFLAGS=-s to the configure, presumably to strip the binaries.
This should not be required as the latest cygwin distributions
automatically strip
the binaries.

> 2. If you find some compile error about "d_ino"(maybe the most popular
> problem ^_^), you could try as follow:
>      *mv ajax/ajfile.c ajax/ajfile.bak
>      mv nucleus/embdbi.c nucleus/embdbi.bak
>      perl -pe 's/d_ino/__invalid_d_ino/g' ajax/ajfile.bak > ajax/ajfile.c
>      perl -pe 's/d_ino/__invalid_d_ino/g' nucleus/embdbi.bak >
> nucleus/embdbi.c

This would indeed work but you might as well apply all the fixes from:
ftp://emboss.open-bio.org/pub/EMBOSS/fixes/ which fix this and other
issues.


> *3. Also you may find the "automake version" problem, try:
>    * aclocal - I m4
>      autoconf
>      automake -a
>     and then make again.
> *

I don't think anyone has ever reported "the automake version" problem
so I'm unsure what is meant here.

HTH

Alan