Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/04/13/23:31:23
At 08:17 PM 4/13/2004, you wrote:
>On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:51:01 -0400, Larry Hall typed:
>> At 10:43 PM 4/12/2004, you wrote:
>>> On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:18:09 -0400, "Christopher Faylor"
>>> <xxx AT xxx DOT xxx> said:
>>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 10:06:27PM -0400, Matthew O. Persico
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> I installed Cygwin today at work onto a network drive. I
>>>>> added
>>>>> the
>>>>> cygwin bin to my path and all was well. I then added the
>>>>> path to
>>>>> a
>>>>> coworker's machine, but it failed miserably. Then I
>>>>> remembered
>>>>> that
>>>>> there were some registry entries for mounting that needed to
>>>>> be
>>>>> installed.
>>>>
>>>> The tool you need is mount.
>>>>
>>>> Just typing "mount" will show you how your mount table is laid
>>>> out.
>>>>
>>>> Typing "mount -m" will show you the commands to recreate the
>>>> mount
>>>> table on another drive (assuming consistent drive lettering).
>>>>
>>>> Even better, typing "man mount" will show you how to use mount.
>>>
>>> How about an FAQ entry:
>>>
>>> How do I install Cygwin to share over a network?
>>>
>>> Having more than one person to be able to access a single shared
>>> instance of Cygwin it is not much different than doing a local
>>> install:
>>>
>>> 1) Install to a network drive. Make sure the the drive you pick
>>> will have the same drive letter for everyone.
>>> 2) On the machine you used for the install, add the DOS path to
>>> the cygwin bin to PATH
>>> 3) Fire up a shell and type
>>> mount -m > remount.sh
>>> 4) On every other user's computer, just add the cygwin bin to the
>>> PATH, execute remount.sh and give them a shortcut to cygwin.bat
>>
>>
>> We try to limit FAQ entries to those that are frequently asked.
>> This one
>> comes up but only once in a while. The idea is if the FAQ becomes
>> to full
>> of "stuff", it will be too hard for anyone to use. So we try to
>> keep it
>> at the "manageable" level by using the axiom above. This would be a
>> reasonable thing to add to the Users Guide IMO. If you're up to
>> it, skim
>> through and see if you can see a good spot to add it. If you can
>> create
>> a patch, I'm sure this will get included.
>>
>
>Well, I fired up cvs and tried to grab src/winsup/doc. I ended up with the whole system somehow - thank goodness we are not up on dialup.
>
>I figured out what needed modification and made the mods. I then tried firing up the build system to see if I didn't screw things up. ./configure seemed to work ok, but make didn't - no db2html. I searched all the source code (since I had it anyway) but didn't find any files named like db2html nor did I find any entries in any Makefiles to build it.
>
>Is there a single search that can be done to figure out in what package db2html might be, so I can download and continue?
This is part of docbook but unfortunately there is no Cygwin package for
docbook (at least not yet, other than the DTD and style-sheets). So you'll
need to grab docbook-tools (http://sources.redhat.com/docbook-tools/).
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