Dave Korn wrote: > On 30 May 2007 11:08, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> * Jean-Pierre Bogler (Wed, 30 May 2007 07:16:42 +0200) >>> The download process worked well an the installation began. After the >>> installation I decided to add a desktop icon and double clicked on it. >>> The dos box told me that it can't change the directory und can't find >>> bash.exe :(, so I looked into the C:\cygwin directory. >>> >>> The only installed directories are: etc, lib, sbin, usr, var. And the >>> files: cygwin.bat and cygwin.ico. There is no bin directory! >>> The setup.log file is full of the complaining listed below (... means that >>> the message above appears more than once). >>> > Yes, but that's very far from an explanation of just how on earth the bin > directory got installed in such an unexpected place, particularly when all > the other directories ended up in the correct location.
I've seen this before. To reproduce: 1. Install cygwin to some directory, say "c:\bizarro_path". 2. Optionally uninstall cygwin. 3. Install cygwin to another directory, "c:\cygwin" The first install set up your /bin mount to point to "c:\bizarro_path\bin". During the second install setup.exe places almost everything in c:\cygwin. However the contents of /bin go to the existing mount point at "c:\bizarro_path\bin". This is necessary so cygwin updates work when you've mounted bin somewhere non-standard. Specifically, when this problem happens cygwin.bat tries to run bash in c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe which is not there. Simple enough to fix, just clear you mounts and reinstall. c:\bizarro_path\bin\umount -a (IIRC) I was thinking of submitting a patch to setup to warn users of /bin being in a non-standard location relative to the install path, but reasoned this is: a) not a very frequent occurence b) usually the user trying to do something strange* Regards, DaveK2. * Having multiple cygwins scattered about the place, and in some cases running them concurrently. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
