X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:44:07 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Moving Cygwin directory safe? Message-ID: <20100629144407.GB25176@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20100626141016 DOT GD3672 AT wladimir> <3710255202 DOT 20100627051050 AT mtu-net DOT ru> <20100627095521 DOT GI3672 AT wladimir> <20100627133726 DOT GA5344 AT wladimir> <20100627190136 DOT GC13357 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20100628205722 DOT GF5344 AT wladimir> <20100629082510 DOT GX8163 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20100629113907 DOT GI5344 AT wladimir> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100629113907.GI5344@wladimir> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 01:39:07PM +0200, Michael Ludwig wrote: >Corinna Vinschen schrieb am 29.06.2010 um 10:25 (+0200): >>On Jun 28 22:57, Michael Ludwig wrote: > >>Actually, while it's not necessary, it makes sense to keep the entries >>under the "installations" key intact. They are generated the first >>time a Cygwin DLL is used. They are useful to find out where Cygwin >>DLLs are (or were) installed on your system. Including the 64 bit hex >>value which forms the names of the entries, it allows to diagnose >>problems which potentially arise from parallel Cygwin installations. >>If you move your installation to another path, a new entry will be >>generated. > >Indeed - I now have two entries under the "Installations" key. To >please the Gods, I restored the first one to the original directory. >Thanks! Actually, the point I was trying to make was that you should never have to use regedit to make Cygwin work correctly. There is no reason to add anything if your installation is working correctly. It would have worked correctly if you had left the registry alone but, since you didn't, there was no reason to restore the first directory. I didn't want the cygwin archives to have advice which suggested that regedit was necessary to move the DLL. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple