--- Dom 28/11/10, Vincent Richomme ha scritto: > On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 01:07:44 +0300, > Andrey Repin > <anrdae...@freemail.ru> > wrote: > > Greetings, Marco Atzeri! > > > >> run setup and choose the directory you want > > > >> the default proposal is c:\cygwin > > > > To add: > > Strongly advised against paths with spaces or national > letters. > > > > Again I was not very clear I don't want to know how to > install cygwin > because even a monkey can do it. > No what I want to know is in the installer how do you > change folder > permissions, > what kind of API, is it done by the installer or by some > post install > script... > Where can I find cygwin installer sources if it's done by > it.
http://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup.html http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/setup/?cvsroot=cygwin-apps > Actually I built a custom installer for msys/mingw-w64 and > when I > install it > in C:/Developer/MaxGW, if I run it without permissions I > cannot create > new folder : > > mkdir: cannot create directory `/home': Permission denied > cp: cannot create regular file `/home/Vincent/.inputrc': No > such file > or direry > bash: cd: /home/Vincent: No such file or directory > > > It means I usually have to run my application using > administrator > rights but > I don't like to do this. > Cygwin seems to allow user to create folder inside its > installation > path so > I would like to know how it's possible. > > Thanks -- 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
