Greetings, L A Walsh! > L A Walsh wrote: >> Andrey Repin wrote: >>> Greetings, L A Walsh! >> Hi Andrey Repin! ;-) >>>> Any idea how to figure out what cygcheck is doing? >>> >>> How did you invoke cygcheck? >>> I've seen similar behavior when invoking it as /usr/bin/cygcheck >>> outside the Cygwin environment. >> ---- >> >> I invoked it from bash at the same place I typed 'll' (ls -l). >> >> It's very confusing -- have run it more than once, since >> I do have some missing files, but not the number of >> files cygcheck lists. >> Thanks... > --- > I think I may be on the path to sorting this out... it seemed to be > looking in another directory created by the install process (vs. > the previously existing one, which it ignored), having to do > with the old path being valid by using Windows-soft-mounts (junctions), > and cygwin overwriting/deleting them because cygwin conflates > junctions and symlinks and treats them the same, losing any > windows-configuration difference.
> Usually it's not so much of a problem, as I haven't upgraded my > cygwin SW for some time. But I forgot how much of a pain it is > because it messes things up every time I run setup (sigh). > It's hard to get the SW installed in the right place when it > keeps overwriting soft-mounts. May be a zp_ (or 0p_) postinstall script could help? -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Monday, April 17, 2017 18:49:10 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
