Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:06:06 +0000 Message-ID: <8097-Fri17Nov2000130606+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: emacs 20.7.1 (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.7.1 From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: setup drops mount? In-Reply-To: <200011131623.LAA24069@envy.delorie.com> References: <70DB181F3302D21192700000F806F3A0074357F9@utoexc1.uto.cpqcorp.net> <200011131623.LAA24069@envy.delorie.com> On Monday 13 Nov 00, DJ Delorie writes: > There are certain key mounts that setup removes always, /var is one of > them. If you look in install.cc, you'll see the whole list: > > remove_mount ("/"); > remove_mount ("/usr"); > remove_mount ("/usr/bin"); > remove_mount ("/usr/lib"); > remove_mount ("/var"); > remove_mount ("/lib"); > remove_mount ("/bin"); > remove_mount ("/etc"); > > create_mount ("/", root_dir, istext, issystem); > create_mount ("/usr/bin", concat (root_dir, "/bin", 0), istext, issystem); > create_mount ("/usr/lib", concat (root_dir, "/lib", 0), istext, issystem); > > This is done to ensure that the resulting setup works smoothly for all > users. I added an entry to the FAQ about this. But what about /usr/local? I have this mounted elsewhere, setup doesn't clear it, and latest/opengl-1.1.0-2.tar.gz gets installed in the wrong place. (Perhaps opengl is packaged wrong?) Thanks, David -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com