Just so that everyone is aware, there should be no issues with the current release in this matter. It works perfectly fine here.
I have a C Drive, Main system drive is H: with the OS install at H:\Windows, and I installed Cygwin to I:\root\cygwin. On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:09:53 -0400, Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:32 PM 8/17/2004, Hannu wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] i.e. Larry Hall, wrote: > >> At 05:39 AM 8/17/2004, you <as quoted by Larry - "Fergus"> wrote: > > > >-zNIPz here and there- > >>> I know we can install Cygwin wherever we like (default c:\Cygwin\ > >>> but it could be c:\MyOS\ or g:\Cygwin\ or even, after overcoming an > >>> objection, the root directory g:\). But has Cygwin its own > >>> expectations of what else is where? > > > >> Cygwin imposes no requirements on the location of the Windows > >> installation. Whatever the problem is with this failure, it is > >> installation specific and not endemic to Cygwin. > > > >-WJM-mode=OFF- > > > FWIW, I never turned on the WJM mode. > > > > While there _should_ be no requirements, one has to be realistic and > >recognize this possibly beeing a setup - or postinstall - malfunction > >triggered by the "nonstandard install location". > > > That would be a bug. But since Fergus was asking whether Cygwin "expected" > certain things in certain locations, the answer to that would be "no". If > it weren't "no", then anyone installing Cygwin to a drive other than C: > would see problems. The lack of email to this list on the matter is just > one indication that Cygwin has no expectations of where things live. The > code itself would be another. ;-) > > If a postinstall script is making some such assumptions, I'd expect we > would've heard quite a bit about that here too (or at cygwin-apps). But if > someone does find such a bug, that's certainly something that should be > reported to cygwin-apps. > > > >H:\MyOs\bin> dir cygcheck*.* > >[output, hopefully listing cygcheck.exe - it is in the 'base' package] > > > >If the cygcheck.exe is available, then do: > > > >H:\MyOs\bin> PATH=.;%PATH% > >H:\MyOs\bin> cygcheck -svr >\cygcheck.txt > > > >... and then follow instructions at the "Problem reports:" webpage; i.e. > >APPEND the cygcheck.txt file to an email and send it here. > > > Sound advice. > > > > > -- > Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com > RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX > Holliston, MA 01746 > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Robert Pendell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
