Hello,
After installing cygwin, I am encountering some issues. cygcheck's output attached:
First, I tried to man bash. Nothing appeared on screen so I hit `q'. Then, it says that nroff was not found.
$ man bash /usr/bin/nroff: not found
Then, I checked whether nroff existed:
$ ls -l /usr/bin/nroff -rw-r--r-- 1 Carlo None 1955 Dec 16 2002 /usr/bin/nroff
Thus, I thought it existed but the permissions were not set well. I then tried to change the permissions:
$ chmod 755 /usr/bin/nroff chmod: changing permissions of `/usr/bin/nroff': No such file or directory
As you see, it says that the file does not exist. Strange, isnt't it? Then, I tried catting the file. Here's what I got.
$ cat /usr/bin/nroff cat: /usr/bin/nroff: No such file or directory
Thus, I tried going to the /usr/bin directory itself and catted nroff to see if it really existed:
$ cd /usr/bin
$ ls -l nroff -rwxr-xr-x 1 Carlo None 1955 Dec 16 2002 nroff
$ cat nroff #!/bin/sh # Emulate nroff with groff.
prog="$0" # Default device. # First try the "locale charmap" command, because it's most reliable.
<Rest of output snipped>
Thus, it exists.
Then, I again tried doing an `ls -l' on nroff, first *not* specifying its fully qualified name (FQN), and afterwards, specifying its FQN. Here's what I got:
$ pwd /usr/bin
$ ls -l nroff -rwxr-xr-x 1 Carlo None 1955 Dec 16 2002 nroff
$ ls -l /usr/bin/nroff -rw-r--r-- 1 Carlo None 1955 Dec 16 2002 /usr/bin/nroff
As you can see, the first listing says the permission is a 755. The second listing says the permission is a 644. This seems to me strange. Why does the permission for the same file appear differently when accessed via different means. (i.e. specifying its FQN; not specifying its FQN)?
Thus, I thought that /usr/bin/nroff was probably hardlinked from /bin/nroff and that this linking might have caused some problems so I checked out /bin/nroff. /bin/nroff existed. I found out that /usr/bin/nroff is indeed a hardlink to /bin/nroff but I didn't see why this could really cause a problem.
Then, I tried opening a cmd prompt to check if there is any clue I could get from it. This is what I got:
--------Start windows cmd output------------ $ cmd Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.
d:\cygwin>cd usr cd usr
D:\cygwin\usr>dir /w dir /w
Volume in drive D is PROGRAMS
Volume Serial Number is 701A-F5A8
Directory of D:\cygwin\usr
[.] [..] [src] [local]
[tmp] [include] [share] [doc]
[man] [sbin] [autotool] [info]
[i686-pc-cygwin] [etc] [var] [X11R6]
[grace] [ssl] [libexec] [logs]
[i686-pc-mingw32]
0 File(s) 0 bytes
21 Dir(s) 1,703,936,000 bytes freeD:\cygwin\usr>dir bin dir bin Volume in drive D is PROGRAMS Volume Serial Number is 701A-F5A8
Directory of D:\cygwin\usr
File Not Found
D:\cygwin\usr>dir d:\cygwin\usr\bin dir d:\cygwin\usr\bin Volume in drive D is PROGRAMS Volume Serial Number is 701A-F5A8
Directory of d:\cygwin\usr
File Not Found
d:\cygwin\usr>
--------End windows cmd output------------
The directory d:\cygwin\usr\bin does not exist. (i.e. It is neither listed with `dir /w' nor `dir bin' nor `dir d:\cygwin\usr\bin') It appears to be linked somewhere else.
I would appreciate it very much if anyone could point out which part of the source code I could tweak. I'd like to learn diagnosing problems in source code level.
Another thing to note is that cygcheck reports several warnings of this sort:
Found: d:\cygwin\\bin\ls.exe Found: d:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe Warning: d:\cygwin\\bin\ls.exe hides d:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
What could be the problem on my system? I know I'm missing something.
Thank you so much!
Best Regards,
Carlo ------ Carlo Florendo y Flora Astra Philippines Inc. www.astra.ph
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