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* setup.exe copies files to wrong place
@ 2004-03-18 18:21 tulitanssi
2004-03-18 18:29 ` Harold L Hunt II
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From: tulitanssi @ 2004-03-18 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-xfree
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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* Re: setup.exe copies files to wrong place
2004-03-18 18:21 setup.exe copies files to wrong place tulitanssi
@ 2004-03-18 18:29 ` Harold L Hunt II
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Harold L Hunt II @ 2004-03-18 18:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-xfree
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
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* Re: setup.exe copies files to wrong place
@ 2004-03-18 18:44 tulitanssi
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From: tulitanssi @ 2004-03-18 18:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-xfree
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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MTV3 Laajakaista - Hauskemman elämän puolesta.
http://www.mtv3.fi/liittyma/hankinta/laajakaista/
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