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 X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer goliath.siemens.de) From: Borsenkow Andrej To: "'Karr, David'" , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Prompt to create local package directory if it doesn't exist? Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:55:57 +0400 Message-ID: <001101c12cb5$43ad2d10$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Importance: Normal x-mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2479.0006 In-Reply-To: <2C08D4EECBDED41184BB00D0B74733420473EF9C@cf-bay-exch-03.cacheflow.com> > > Most install programs, when the user enters an "install directory" that > does > not exist, present a prompt to the user asking if they want to create that > directory. The Cygwin setup does that too. However, it doesn't do that > for > the "local package directory". If the local package directory doesn't > exist, it just reports an error. Is there a good reason why it works this > way? I can see the possibility that someone might want to install Cygwin > in, say, "c:/cygwin", but set the local package directory to > "c:/cygwin/install". If you want to do that, you have to precreate the > directory. > I wrote local package directory patch and I did not need it at this moment. Sorry if I overlooked it. You are welcome to extend it. -andrej -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/