cyg Simple writes: > I wasn't asking for help; I have a working install. I was stating the > possibility of making Cygwin better.
You haven't made an argument in which way having /usr/share be a mount point would be an improvement over the current situation where it is simply a directory. > Too bad that one cannot simply > extract the archives and must depend on the blind use of setup.exe. You can look at the source code for setup to learn exactly how it is working. I manually extract package archives all the time to install packages from the build environment into a separate test installation. The only two mounts you need to provide are $PREFIX/bin => $PREFIX/usr/bin $PREFIX/lib => $PREFIX/usr/lib just like setup.exe does. You still cannot simply extract the archives since you also need to take care about preremove and postinstall scripts plus the housekeeping in $PREFIX/etc/setup/. BTW, as Andrew already said, there is no /share in any of the packages, only /usr/share. If you want to do something else than setup.exe, you'd need to create your own packages anyway. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Wavetables for the Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#BlofeldUserWavetables -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
