On 11/04/2014 05:54 PM, cyg Simple wrote:
I want to wrap this up by first stating that I now understand why you
think /usr/share exists and why I stated it does not and to perhaps
help some other confused person looking at just the archive files. I
extracted the archives and found PREFIX/usr and
I want to wrap this up by first stating that I now understand why you
think /usr/share exists and why I stated it does not and to perhaps
help some other confused person looking at just the archive files. I
extracted the archives and found PREFIX/usr and PREFIX/etc. Since the
bin directory existe
cyg Simple writes:
> I wasn't asking for help; I have a working install. I was stating the
> possibility of making Cygwin better.
You haven't made an argument in which way having /usr/share be a mount
point would be an improvement over the current situation where it is
simply a directory.
> Too
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> >
> > Nope. The problem you're encountering is homemade. /usr/share is a
> > normal directory just like /usr. There's no reason at all to mount
> > anything there. If your installation doesn't have /usr/share, your
> > installation
On 2014-11-04 09:19, cyg Simple wrote:
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Nope. The problem you're encountering is homemade. /usr/share is a
normal directory just like /usr. There's no reason at all to mount
anything there. If your installation doesn't have /usr/share, y
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> Nope. The problem you're encountering is homemade. /usr/share is a
> normal directory just like /usr. There's no reason at all to mount
> anything there. If your installation doesn't have /usr/share, your
> installation is clearly bro
On Nov 4 09:42, cyg Simple wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 4:29 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Nov 3 17:34, cyg Simple wrote:
> >> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> >> > On 2014-11-03 16:14, cyg Simple wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> It is true that I am not using setup-${arch}
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 4:29 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov 3 17:34, cyg Simple wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>> > On 2014-11-03 16:14, cyg Simple wrote:
>> >>
>> >> It is true that I am not using setup-${arch}.exe but that shouldn't
>> >> matter as long as
On Nov 3 17:34, cyg Simple wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz
> wrote:
> > On 2014-11-03 16:14, cyg Simple wrote:
> >>
> >> It is true that I am not using setup-${arch}.exe but that shouldn't
> >> matter as long as I have the dependencies resolved.
> >
> >
> > Yes, it does
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On 2014-11-03 16:14, cyg Simple wrote:
>>
>> It is true that I am not using setup-${arch}.exe but that shouldn't
>> matter as long as I have the dependencies resolved.
>
>
> Yes, it does matter; Cygwin setup is the only supported method of
On 2014-11-03 16:14, cyg Simple wrote:
It is true that I am not using setup-${arch}.exe but that shouldn't
matter as long as I have the dependencies resolved.
Yes, it does matter; Cygwin setup is the only supported method of
creating and managing a Cygwin installation. Please try again from
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> There's no /share directory in a standard Cygwin installation. /usr is
> a real dir within your Cygwin installation dir. It doesn't have to be
> mounted, nor does /usr/share, which is also created by setup-${arch}.exe
> by default.
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Andrew Schulman
> wrote:
> >> I have found that terminfo is built such that it requires /usr/share
> >> to be available but /usr/share isn't mounted by default. This causes
> >> unexpected side effects of the terminal not responding properly
> >> especially noti
On Oct 31 16:55, cyg Simple wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Andrew Schulman
> wrote:
> >> I have found that terminfo is built such that it requires /usr/share
> >> to be available but /usr/share isn't mounted by default. This causes
> >> unexpected side effects of the terminal not respo
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Andrew Schulman
wrote:
>> I have found that terminfo is built such that it requires /usr/share
>> to be available but /usr/share isn't mounted by default. This causes
>> unexpected side effects of the terminal not responding properly
>> especially noticed when usi
> I have found that terminfo is built such that it requires /usr/share
> to be available but /usr/share isn't mounted by default. This causes
> unexpected side effects of the terminal not responding properly
> especially noticed when using the Backspace key. In my opinion either
> terminfo needs
I have found that terminfo is built such that it requires /usr/share
to be available but /usr/share isn't mounted by default. This causes
unexpected side effects of the terminal not responding properly
especially noticed when using the Backspace key. In my opinion either
terminfo needs to change
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