Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040420162816.02fef990@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 16:29:44 -0400 To: "Latham, Justin" , "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: Setup changes paths In-Reply-To: <93DA0219FE13D511889F00508BCFEB9011D0FDA9@u02m02.usa02.na.b aesystems.com> References: <93DA0219FE13D511889F00508BCFEB9011D0FDA9 AT u02m02 DOT usa02 DOT na DOT baesystems DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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. -- 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/