Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040422135358.038ccf48@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:58:01 -0400 To: "Latham, Justin" , "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: Setup changes paths In-Reply-To: <93DA0219FE13D511889F00508BCFEB9011D0FDB3@u02m02.usa02.na.b aesystems.com> References: <93DA0219FE13D511889F00508BCFEB9011D0FDB3@u02m02.usa02.na.baesystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:43 AM 4/21/2004, you wrote: > At 03:18 PM 4/20/2004, you wrote: > >My work pc is set up so that the c drive is too small for anything >useful >and all applications go on the d drive. The standard build of the pc >is set > >up with Cygwin already installed. My issue is that the standard >build >doesn't have some components I need. > > > >However, setup.exe always installs updates to c:\cygwin, regardless >of what > >I specify in the installer GUI. Future executions of the GUI >indicate that >these components are installed, but they won't run (give "can >not find dll" > >errors, etc...). My registry paths BEFORE running setup all point >to /, >/usr/lib, and /usr/bin being on the d: drive in the correct place. My > > >registry paths AFTER running setup have moved /usr/lib and /usr/bin >to >c:\cygwin. How do I keep the damn thing from installing to the wrong >place? > >Just moving my cygwin install to c:\cygwin is not an option... > > Can't say. It works for me (and always has). Perhaps looking at >/var/log/setup.log.full would be helpful. > > >/var/log/setup.log.full is as follows. Does the cygwin installer write any >temp files? Does it have to perform any other actions besides writing the >files to the install location and writing the paths to the registry? > > > >2004/04/20 16:42:44 Starting cygwin install, version 2.418 >2004/04/20 16:42:44 Current Directory: >C:\WINNT\Profiles\justin.latham\DESKTOP >2004/04/20 16:42:44 Could not open Service control manager >2004/04/20 16:42:47 source: from cwd >2004/04/20 16:42:57 root: D:\ede_local\Cygwin_1-3_a binary system >2004/04/20 16:43:06 Selected local directory: D:\cygpack This looks fine to me. According to this, setup will install stuff in 'D:\ede_local\Cygwin_1-3_a'. Do you have the same problem if you install from the internet? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/