Mark, Thanks for the feedback.
It turns out that I was accidentally specifying the installed_files location as the Cygwin install root location during the extended setup. As a result, the non-default binaries were getting placed under installed_files instead of ...\cygwin\bin. My apologies. Everything seems to be functioning as expected now except that it appears that some perl binaries in the installed_files location have installed themselves as Windows services (my fault for trying to see what happens if I execute perl.exe directly). As a result, I am unable to delete a specific subfolder under installed_files. No biggie, but I would like to clean up the unneccessary files under installed_files. I've tried cleaning up the Windows registry and that allowed me to delete most of the files. However, some files remain (they must still be in use)and I am also worried about any other possible side-effects. I tried booting XP in safe mode with command prompt but still wasn't able to delete that last set of files. Thanks, Puneet On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Puneet Singh Lamba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark, > > Many thanks for the response. > > When I installed Cygwin, I had used the view "Category" and clicked on > "Default" next to "All" at the root of the tree so that it would > change to "Install". > > My understanding is that doing so should install everything available > on the mirror from which you are installing. > > I performed the check you recommended. When I toggle the view to > "Uninstalled" I only see five obscure packages listed and the list > does not include "perl" or "util-linux". However, I do see these two > packages listed when I toggle the view to either "Category" or "Full". > And the "New" column is set to "Keep" in both cases. This seems to > suggest that these libraries are indeed installed. Do you agree? > > If so, then it would appear as if somehow they are not on the PATH. > > Again, here is the output I get when I do "echo $PATH". > > /cygdrive/c/oraclexe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/sy > stem32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program > > Files/Intel/Wireless/Bin/:/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin:/cygdrive/c/apache-ant-1.6.5/b > in:/cygdrive/c/jvmstat/bat:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Roxio > Shared/D > LLShared/:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Roxio > Shared/DLLShared/:/cygdri > ve/c/Program Files/Common Files/Roxio > Shared/9.0/DLLShared/:/cygdrive/c/Program > Files/QuickTime/QTSystem/ > > I see that perl.exe is located here: > > C:\cygwin\installation_files\ftp%3a%2f%2fftp.cise.ufl.edu%2fpub%2fmirrors%2fcygwin%2f\release\perl\bin > > There is a cygwin.bat one folder up that seems to do a chdir to > ...\perl\bin prior to lauching Cygwin. But bash is still not able to > find perl. And in any case, I'd like to be able to start Cygwin in one > consistent manner and have it find everything that is installed. > > Do I need to adjust the PATH? If so, how do I find out what to add to > the PATH for util-linux and perl? > > By the way, I also just reinstalled perl, just to make sure. And I > still see perl.exe only in the installation_files tree, not in > cygwin/bin, where I am hoping to see it. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance, > > Puneet > -- 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/
