From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26400 invoked by alias); 19 Dec 2001 20:30:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 26378 invoked from network); 19 Dec 2001 20:30:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO antiochus-fe0.ultra.net) (146.115.8.188) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Dec 2001 20:30:10 -0000 Received: from enterprise-e.Starfleet.com (216-164-247-225.s2447.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com [216.164.247.225]) by antiochus-fe0.ultra.net (8.8.8/ult/n20340/mtc.v2) with ESMTP id PAA09449; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 15:29:52 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20011219151221.022c9e30@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 12:43:00 -0000 To: "Ching, Jimen" , "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: RE: default mounts In-Reply-To: <8AC36D3167EED41184C800508BD95405016744DD@apollo.adtech-inc .com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00964.txt.bz2 At 03:11 PM 12/19/2001, Ching, Jimen wrote: >David Starks-Browning [starksb@ebi.ac.uk] said: > >There is an entry "Why the weird directory structure?" in the Cygwin > >FAQ. Did you read it? If, after reading the FAQ entry, you still > >have questions or problems, please report them to the list. > >Apparently, this FAQ is accurate. The problem is, there are files >installed into /usr/lib, which the mounts will override. See below. > >Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [lhall@rfk.com] said: > >I suggest you remove any symlinks > >to for directories that setup.exe uses as mounts prior to using setup. > >I expect that was your problem during installation of the latest Cygwin > >version. > >I did, and setup.exe recreated the mounts. From the FAQ above, it seems >this is the expected behavior. But it does not explain the files in >the original directory. This is a list of those files: > >/usr/bin/glut32.dll >/usr/lib/mingw/libglui.a >/usr/lib/mingw/libgluix.a >/usr/lib/libglui.a >/usr/lib/libgluix.a > >I could not find any package that provides 'glut'. Should I just delete >these files? These would come from the OpenGL package. I guess I'm still not clear on what you're implying here. Are you suggesting that you did not have /usr/lib and /usr/bin before you ran setup.exe and somehow in the process the directories were created, the files you mentioned were deposited in them, and then setup.exe mounted these directories elsewhere? It is not setup.exe's expected behavior to put anything in /usr/bin and /usr/lib. It is setup.exe's expected behavior to mount /bin to /usr/bin and /lib to /usr/lib. Unless you can provide more details of what you did, I have to conclude that you created /usr/lib and /usr/bin prior to running setup.exe. If that's the case, I recommend that you not do this. If not, I don't have enough information about the process you followed to even begin speculating further. I'd recommend getting rid of the files you list above and installing the OpenGL package via setup.exe if you want it. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/