Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 00:12:16 +1000 (EST) From: "David O'Shea" To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Setup v1.34 & root installation Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm using Setup v1.34 (27 Apr 2000 14:25:57), and I told it to install in "d:\". The cygwin.bat it placed in d:\bin looked like this: cat <d:/bin/cygwin.bat @echo off SET MAKE_MODE=unix SET PATH=d:\\bin;d:\\usr\local\bin;%PATH% bash EOF When I ran cygwin using the icon on my start menu, it sat there for a while with no prompt (presumably looking for a machine on the network called "bin") and then the console disappeared. I turned off "Close on exit" in the properties and it said "Bad command or file name", naturally. I'm surprised nobody else has reported this - has everyone else just typed, e.g. "c:" and not "c:\"? Or is my system just weird? A second issue (maybe related to the first?) is that Setup decided to start downloading all of the snapshots from my mirror! I was downloading from mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/cygwin/latest, and after downloading all the packages (including cygwin/cygwin-20000301.tar.gz) it got an old snapshot (from ../old/snapshot-19990115/cygwin-inst-19990115.tar.gz) and then went on downloading everything from ../snapshots/ - well the cygwin-inst-*.tar.gz files anyway, because after it downloaded three I stopped it downloading and re-ran setup with the d option to install from what it had already downloaded. Is this normal behaviour? I don't understand why it has to download all of these snapshots - when I looked in the setup log (which has now been truncated because I ran setup to check the version for this email!) it did actually install the three snapshots I let it download, one after the other, and it seems like they each overwrote the previous one. Now I probably have a different version of the files than everyone else in the world! Actually, they didn't quite overwrite each other, because cygwin-1990115.tar.gz puts files into i586-pc-cygwin32 and cygwin-2000*.tar.gz put their files into i686-pc-cygwin. Is it going to ever do me any good having both of these directories with different versions of cygwin headers and libraries or is this an error in the installation process? I would have done a manual installation if I could find instructions on where to put things and what symlinks to make (or is all of that in the tarballs?). One more thing, with regards to the RPM idea, I think it sounds good. Maybe it wouldn't be too hard to take the bits of the RedHat Linux installer that let you choose packages and do dependency checks and do the FTP/HTTP download and make a Cygwin installer? I'm certainly not volunteering for the job, though :) Thanks for taking the time to read my spam! DOS -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com