I normally run with cygwin in my root dir -- doing otherwise causes problems when programs are started from windows.
I installed cygwin64 the other day and it overwrote links I had to separate cyg64 & cyg32.. Setup wants to install things in separate dirs .. ok fine... but some dirs have shared content. Most things in /usr/share are not arch dependent -- things like fonts are not (nor are man pages or most documentation). Seems like setup doesn't prevent installing cyg64 over cyg32, but does the other way around -- even though if it left the root dirs "alone", they'd each install into root with the libs and binaries ending up in C:\cygwin or C:\cygwin64. It *does* work and was able to run 32-bit programs, but mount is being difficult as is setup. setup could be allowed to install into the separate subdirs if I can get the root dir setup properly. In my C:\ dir: lrwxrwxrwx 1 28 Jan 12 09:18 bin -> /Windows/System32/cygwin/bin drwxrwxr-x+ 1 0 Jan 13 17:31 cygwin drwxr-xr-x+ 1 0 Jan 12 14:11 cygwin64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 28 Jan 12 08:54 etc -> /Windows/System32/cygwin/etc lrwxrwxrwx 1 28 Jan 11 20:46 lib -> /Windows/System32/cygwin/lib lrwxrwxrwx 1 29 Jan 11 20:49 sbin -> /Windows/System32/cygwin/sbin lrwxrwxrwx 1 28 Jan 12 09:51 usr -> /Windows/System32/cygwin/usr lrwxrwxrwx 1 28 Jan 11 21:40 var -> /Windows/System32/cygwin/var In 32bit cygwin, in C:\windows\system32, processes 'see': 01/10/2014 12:09 PM <SYMLINKD> cygwin [C:\cygwin] in 64bit cygwin, in C:\windows\system32, processes 'see': 01/11/2014 08:21 PM <SYMLINKD> cygwin [C:\cygwin64] If nothing in setup overwrote (removed the symlinkd's in C:\) the key directories, then both would install into the 'right' location. But that's not likely to be easily doable. But what can be done is installing into C:\cygwin or C:\cygwin64 and making the root dir C:\ -- if mount would cooperate. Then the paths would still work. So how can can I get mount to allow me to remount root -- i.e.: mount C:\ / (when I do it, I either get perm problems OR a message about it being unable to figure out the type: /usr/bin> mount C:\\ / mount: warning: couldn't determine mount type. mount: /: Operation not permitted ------------- Note -- here is cygwin64 calling cygwin32... /Users/law.Bliss> uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1 Athenae 1.7.27(0.271/5/3) 2013-12-09 11:54 x86_64 Cygwin /Users/law.Bliss> cd /c/cygwin/bin /c/cygwin/bin> bash User Bliss\law's .bashrc called 2nd time bash: /dev/fd/62: No such file or directory bash: /dev/fd/62: No such file or directory bash: /dev/fd/62: No such file or directory /c/cygwin/bin> uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 Athenae 1.7.27(0.271/5/3) 2013-12-09 11:57 i686 Cygwin /c/cygwin/bin> -- 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
