X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:46:23 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Minor terminfo problem (was Re: Garbage man pages) Message-ID: <20090618154623.GQ5039@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4A326B74.7000005@gmail.com> <4A326F19.8000303@gmail.com> <4A33100F.5070401@gmail.com> <83zlccsk2h.fsf@gmail.com> <4A33864E.9010506@gmail.com> <4A36531A.3010508@gmail.com> <4A38574F.3090202@gmail.com> <83skhy6zek.fsf@gmail.com> <20090618094650.GN5039@calimero.vinschen.de> <20090618140715.GA31241@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090618140715.GA31241@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Jun 18 10:07, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:46:50AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >2009/06/16 11:13:45 running: C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh > >chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `Eterm-color' > > > >ETerm-color points to ../E/ETerm, but the directory is called 'e', > >not 'E'. That's a problem when using case-sensitivity like on a couple > >of my test machines. > > > >Chuck? Can you fix this in a manner which also works on case-sensitive > >filesyatems, please? > > Maybe we should fix this in setup.exe too by setting the terminal type > to "dumb". In fact, maybe we should cleanse the environment in setup.exe > before running any program, if we aren't doing that already. This isn't really a problem of the $TERM environment setting. It's just a call to chmod which goes wrong because the directory "E" is actually called "e", You'll only notice that on case-sensitive systems. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/