Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/04/12/13:03:22
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> 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
"file:///bin"
> created, mkdir_p("file:///usr/bin") is a no-op...
> Igor
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