Re: setup.exe copies files to wrong place

Re: setup.exe copies files to wrong place

[tulitanssi]

Hi Harold,

and thanks for the fast response. All I admit is that I don't remember whether I installed it on D drive also ... ;)

But it is a good idea that setup.exe would warn if user is doing something which seems to be wrong.

Cheers,
Tuli

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Re: setup.exe copies files to wrong place

[Harold L Hunt II]

tulitanssi@luukku.com wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> setup.exe seems to copy some files, e.g. font files, to a wrong drive.
> 
> For example, if setup.exe is located (and run) at D:\cygwin_install directory and
> the target directory is C:\cygwin, then setup.exe copies lots of stuff
> to D:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts\...
> 
> It would seem that somewhere the target root is set to \cygwin instead of C:\cygwin ?

No.

You have the 2nd problem described here:

http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof

Whether or not you admit it or know it, you at one time had Cygwin 
installed to d:\cygwin, which left in place a pointer to 
d:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts as the location where fonts should be 
unpacked to.

Run 'mount', you may or may not notice that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts 
still points to the D drive (this was likely already corrected by the 
postinstall step).

I'm seeing this so often that I am *almost* motivated enough to write a 
patch to setup.exe to bitch when there are invalid mount points and 
asking the user if they would like to remove those mount points before 
unpacking packages.

Harold

setup.exe copies files to wrong place

[tulitanssi]

Hello,

setup.exe seems to copy some files, e.g. font files, to a wrong drive.

For example, if setup.exe is located (and run) at D:\cygwin_install directory and
the target directory is C:\cygwin, then setup.exe copies lots of stuff
to D:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts\...

It would seem that somewhere the target root is set to \cygwin instead of C:\cygwin ?

Tuli


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