On Oct 31 16:55, cyg Simple wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Andrew Schulman > <schulman.and...@epa.gov> 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 using the Backspace key. In my opinion either > >> terminfo needs to change its settings to use /share instead of > >> /usr/share or Cygwin needs modified to automatically mount /usr/share > >> like it does /usr/lib. Or rather just automount /usr such that it > >> points to / regardless of the underlying directory. The automount of > >> /usr/lib also presents an issue when the user mounts /usr to point to > >> `cygpath -m /` in that any access to /usr gives a directory not found > >> error when /lib doesn't actually exist. > > > > /usr/share isn't mounted separately, at least in any Cygwin installation > > I've ever had. It's just a directory within /usr, which is within the > > mount /. > > > > But not automounted within the cygwin1.dll initialization process. > Only /usr/bin and /usr/lib are. At least with 1.7.32. > > > Moreover /usr/share should always exist, since many base packages store > > files in it. Does it not exist in your installation? Do you have e.g. > > /usr/share/doc? > > /usr/share doesn't exist unless /usr or /usr/share is mounted via > /etc/fstab. /share does exist.
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.
Corinna
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