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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:58:01 -0400
To: "Latham, Justin" <justin DOT latham AT baesystems DOT com>,
   "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Setup changes paths
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At 11:43 AM 4/21/2004, you wrote:


>    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. 
>
>
>/var/log/setup.log.full is as follows.  Does the cygwin installer write any
>temp files?   Does it have to perform any other actions besides writing the
>files to the install location and writing the paths to the registry?
>
>
>
>2004/04/20 16:42:44 Starting cygwin install, version 2.418
>2004/04/20 16:42:44 Current Directory:
>C:\WINNT\Profiles\justin.latham\DESKTOP
>2004/04/20 16:42:44 Could not open Service control manager
>2004/04/20 16:42:47 source: from cwd
>2004/04/20 16:42:57 root: D:\ede_local\Cygwin_1-3_a binary system
>2004/04/20 16:43:06 Selected local directory: D:\cygpack 


This looks fine to me.  According to this, setup will install stuff in 
'D:\ede_local\Cygwin_1-3_a'.  Do you have the same problem if you install 
from the internet?


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