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From: Michael A Chase <mchase@ix.netcom.com>
To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Where is the manual to manually install Cygwin in Windiows   2000
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16ycs3-0006Ad-00@smtp6.mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20020419100936.02a1f840@pop.ma.ultranet.com>

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:23:56 -0400 "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com> wrote:

> At 09:45 PM 4/18/2002, Michael A Chase wrote:
> >From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
> >To: "George Hester" <hesterloli@hotmail.com>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> >Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 18:09
> >Subject: Re: Where is the manual to manually install Cygwin in Windiows
> 2000

> > > Really, there's really no *magic* to setup though...
> >
> >There are some mount points that _must_ be created for Cygwin to work
> >reliable 
> 
> 
> I quite disagree with this point.  If it were true, it would be
> impossible 
> to move a Cygwin executable and the DLL to a machine without a Cygwin 
> install and have it work.  This does work in the general case, though 
> there are specific packages for which it won't without additional 
> configuration (like the mount points you mentioned, mount type,
> environment
> variable settings, etc).  But those are limited exceptions to the rule.

Those limited exceptions generate a lot of "Cygwin is broke" messages like when
a version of setup failed to create the /usr/bin and /usr/lib mounts a
couple months ago.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-19 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-18 17:56 George Hester
2002-04-18 18:33 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2002-04-18 18:47   ` Michael A Chase
2002-04-19  7:30     ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2002-04-19 11:22       ` Michael A Chase [this message]
2002-04-19 12:33         ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2002-04-18 18:52   ` Where is the manual to manually install cygwin " Christopher Faylor
2002-04-18 18:46 ` Where is the manual to manually install Cygwin " Randall R Schulz
2002-04-19  5:49 Where is the manual to manually install cygwin " misi misi
2002-04-19  7:31 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2002-04-20  0:19   ` George Hester
     [not found] <F68NIPukg3nOpj53XaD0000aad8@hotmail.com>
2002-04-19  9:44 ` Where is the manual to manually install Cygwin " Michael A Chase
2002-04-20  1:07 Where is the manual to manually install cygwin " Robert Collins
2002-04-20 11:11 ` George Hester
2002-04-20 11:26   ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2002-04-20 16:04   ` Randall R Schulz

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