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Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 05:08:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Installation problems
To: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT home DOT com>,
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--- "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT home DOT com> wrote:
> 
> IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICER IF "SETUP" checked the mount table from
> HKLM & HKCU first and installed according to that.
> 

That's what the "Just me" or "All Users" is for.  See my webpages.

> During the install, I got multiple error messages of the form:
> 1) tar: error creating symlink C://usr/lib/mingwin -> mingwn32

This should be C:/usr/lib/mingw -> mingw32

> 2)      cannot find C://bin/g++.exe to link c++.exe to.
> 

This should be linking c++ to g++ *NOT* g++ to c++ as g++ is a deprecated name.

> PS: THE ERROR MESSAGE BOX comes up hidden under the progress box.  I
> thought the system was frozen and restarted three times before I
> figured that one out.  You could maybe make it come up on top, or
> change the size or location?  Tnx.
> 

Since we're talking wishes, "leave the windows where the user moves them to"
would be a good one also.  But, I'm not going to mention it.

> At the end of the install, error:
> 
>  Cannot open (null) for writing.
> 
> Cygwin.bat runs, and I've attached the cygcheck output; but do I
> need to modify anything here?
> 
> [two minutes later . . .] AHA!
> Something needs to be changed, my "HOME"=/home/superbiskit where I 
> mount E:\HOME /home.  But my cygcheck output went to
> E:\HOME\superbiskit\'\home\superbiskit\.
> 

I noticed that, where did that come from?  Everything else looked good.

Cheers,

=====
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   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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