Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/08/03/17:01:42
Thanks, all, for the help yesterday. It gave me just enough
knowledge (or rope) to shoot both feet off completely!
I'm quoting Earnie Boyd's reply to my original post. -- Not all in
order.
>> [two minutes later . . .] AHA!
>> Something needs to be changed, my "HOME"=/home/superbiskit where I
>> mount E:\HOME /home. But my cygcheck output went to
>> E:\HOME\superbiskit\'\home\superbiskit\.
>
> I noticed that, where did that come from? Everything else looked good.
>
It came from an incredible mental gap. I had /quoted/ things in my
Cygwin.bat thus "SET HOME='/home/superbiskit'" The single quotes
simply passed through to Cygwin which treated them as path nodes.
--- Quoting (or paraphrasing) DJ:
> What setup are you using?
Downloaded SETUP.EXE yesterday (G 2000-08-02) from Cygwin. Internal
Time Date Stamp = "39877dd0".
Used mirror at sunsite.utk.edu.
--- From Earnie again, various corrections of the error messages I
reported.
I went back and did it all again and wrote them down more
carefully. Could have used a log (some future release).
1) "error: unable to create symlink"
a) C://usr/include/mingw -> mingw32
Note- I had indicated a backslant -- it isn't.
b) C://lib/libc.a -> libcygwin.a
c) C://lib/libg.a -> libcygwin.a [!]
d) C://lib/libm.a -> libcygwin.a [!!]
e) C://bin/awk.exe -> gawk.exe
f) C://lib/libstdc++.a -> libstdc++.a.2.10.0
2) "tar: can't find %1 to link %2 to"
a) usr/bin/c++.exe C://bin/g++.exe
b) usr/bin/gcc.exe C://bin/i686-pc-cygwin-gcc.exe
c) usr/bin/logger.exe C://bin/syslog.exe
d) usr/bin/ctags.exe C://bin/etags.exe
Plus many many of both messages in the "vim" install - too many to
write down.
At the end "Can't open (null) for writing: \n No such file or
directory"
OK, here's the latest.
I thought (first error) that having my mounts textmode could be a
problem, so I changed them all to "mount -b -s -f"
Then I deleted _everything_ remotely related to the cygwin
installation except the "Mounts_V2" registry entries.
I reran SETUP again - usually from <sunsite.utk.edu>, twice
<ygdrassl?>, once <freesoftware>. That's many times. When all has
been said and done, THERE IS NOTHING AT ALL IN /bin (or in /usr/bin,
or in any directory except /lib -- and that may be a leftover.
Evidently, setup thinks all the current versions are still there!
It didn't look to check.
Now here is a real kicker -- nearly all of the same error messages
came up at the same points. I think the complaints about the
/lib/libc.a did not. SETUP cannot find the same things when it
shouldn't be able to find anything at all anywhere!
Just in case it could have been misplaced, I did a Windows FIND on
*ash.exe" which should have two or more hits. It had none.
This is like two squares before square one. Obviously I need help.
>Cheers,
>
>=====
>---
> Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Not much cheer today!
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