On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Science Guy wrote:
> From message http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-06/msg00534.html:
>
> > Dave, I think you missed this:
> >
> >>sciguy wrote:
> >>>I am networked to a Linux machine, so I moved the tar file
> >>>cygwin-inst-20060614.tar.bz2 over to the Linux machine, created a dummy
> >>>cygwin directory to hold the file, and un-tarred it there using this
> >>>command:
> >>>
> >>>% /bin/tar -jxvf cygwin-inst-20060614.tar.bz2
> >>>
> >>>Then I ftp'd the entire un-tarred file and directory structure over the
> >>>cygwin directory of the affected Windows PC.
> >
> >This is why I kept mentioning that the snapshot cygwin DLL wasn't
> >installed in the right location. I correctly assumed that this step did
> >not put the cygwin DLL (or any of the cygwin programs) in c:\cygwin\bin.
> >The cygcheck output made this pretty clear.
> >
> >cgf
>
> Yes, when I untarred the file with "/bin/tar -jxvf
> cygwin-inst-20060614.tar.bz2," I found it contained only these two
> top-level directories: /etc and /usr. It did not contain a /bin
> directory.
Well, untarring on Linux in itself wouldn't have been so bad, but you've
probably used a Windows ftp to copy the files to your PC -- and that's
where the problem lies. Cygwin's ftp would have understood Cygwin mounts,
and placed all the files in /bin (which /usr/bin is an alias for, as far
as Cygwin applications are concerned), though, of course, it too would not
have been able to replace cygwin1.dll, for the obvious reasons.
Igor
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