On Jun 18 10:07, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:46:50AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >2009/06/16 11:13:45 running: C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile > >-c /etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh > >chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `Eterm-color' > > > >ETerm-color points to ../E/ETerm, but the directory is called 'e', > >not 'E'. That's a problem when using case-sensitivity like on a couple > >of my test machines. > > > >Chuck? Can you fix this in a manner which also works on case-sensitive > >filesyatems, please? > > Maybe we should fix this in setup.exe too by setting the terminal type > to "dumb". In fact, maybe we should cleanse the environment in setup.exe > before running any program, if we aren't doing that already.
This isn't really a problem of the $TERM environment setting. It's just a call to chmod which goes wrong because the directory "E" is actually called "e", You'll only notice that on case-sensitive systems. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
