Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/04/12/13:01:57
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 12 April 2007 17:49, Jeff Hawk wrote:
>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Thorsten Kampe
> >> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 11:03 AM
>
> >> \cygwin\usr\bin and \cygwin\usr\lib are /real/ directories created by
> >> the initial Cygwin installation routine. He shouldn't delete those
> >> directories - just keep them empty...
> >
> > Not true...
> >
> > I have Cygwin installed and there is NO c:\cygwin\usr\bin directory
> >
> > As has been mentioned before, /usr/bin is a *mount* point, not a real
> > directory.
> >
> > 0> mount
> > C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) <<<<<<<<<<<
> > C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
> > C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
> >
> > Like that ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Yeh, but it helps to create a real directory to back up a mountpoint,
> because that avoids a warning message.
Only if you explicitly use "mount". If you let setup create the mounts
for you, there is no warning message. :-)
> And setup.exe is /supposed/ to create them: see do_install_thread in
> install.cc:
>
> for (i = 0; Installer::StandardDirs[i]; i++)
> {
> std::string p = cygpath (Installer::StandardDirs[i]);
> if (p.size())
> io_stream::mkpath_p (PATH_TO_DIR, "file://" + p);
> }
>
> const char *
> Installer::StandardDirs[] = {
> "/bin",
> "/etc",
> "/lib",
> "/tmp",
> "/usr",
> "/usr/bin",
> "/usr/lib",
> "/usr/src",
> "/usr/local",
> "/usr/local/bin",
> "/usr/local/etc",
> "/usr/local/lib",
> "/usr/tmp",
> "/var/run",
> "/var/tmp",
> 0
> };
Setup's io_stream uses Cygwin mounts. Thus, once "file:///usr" is
created, mkdir_p("file:///usr/bin") is a no-op...
Igor
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