On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > Greetings! > > The cygwin installer, setup.exe, crashes when trying to install files to > a directory which has been mounted to the root directory of a drive. > > Setup.exe must of course look at the mounts recorded in the registry to > install files in the correct places. However, when you mount a cygwin > directory, such as /etc, on the root directory of a partition, like e:\, > regardless of whether it's done with the command "mount e:\\ /etc", "mount > e:/ /etc" or "mount e: /etc", only the drive letter and the colon (e:) is > recorded in the registry. This causes setup.exe to crash when it tries to > copy files (e.g. to /etc/postinstall). Manually editing the registry, > adding a backslash after the colon, solves the problem. > > I suggest that setup.exe assume that <driveletter>: means <driveletter>:\ > in the registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 > and possibly HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2). > > Setup.exe demands that the cygwin root directory, which is asked for on its > third screen, is absolute, i.e. begins with <driveletter>:\, so that's not a > problem. > > Regards, > Magnus Holmgren
Shouldn't we also change mount to record the trailing '\' in the registry? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/