X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <465D6C69.1030103@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 08:22:01 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070308 Fedora/1.5.0.10-2.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem with setup.exe - C:\cygwin\bin\* isn't created References: <000e01c7a2a3$d45a38c0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <465D5720.6000002@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <465D5720.6000002@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 05/30/2007, Dave wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > > > On 30 May 2007 11:08, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > >> >> * Jean-Pierre Bogler (Wed, 30 May 2007 07:16:42 +0200) > >>> >>> The download process worked well an the installation began. After > the > >>> >>> installation I decided to add a desktop icon and double clicked on > it. > >>> >>> The dos box told me that it can't change the directory und can't > find > >>> >>> bash.exe :( , so I looked into the C:\cygwin directory. > >>> >>> > >>> >>> The only installed directories are: etc, lib, sbin, usr, var. And > the > >>> >>> files: cygwin.bat and cygwin.ico. There is no bin directory! > >>> >>> The setup.log file is full of the complaining listed below (... > means that > >>> >>> the message above appears more than once). > >>> >>> > > > Yes, but that's very far from an explanation of just how on earth the > bin directory got installed in such an unexpected place, particularly when > all the other directories ended up in the correct location. > > I've seen this before. To reproduce: > > 1. Install cygwin to some directory, say "c:\bizarro_path". > 2. Optionally uninstall cygwin. > 3. Install cygwin to another directory, "c:\cygwin" > > The first install set up your /bin mount to point to "c:\bizarro_path\bin". In this case, the "bad" bin directory appears to be the result of a - PDFMerge in this case. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/