Thanks for these information Enrico. I know that I am such a lazy
bastard and I could have found them by myself.
It just happened to me that I keep all installed cygwin package in a
separate directory (I never use install from the internet) so I could as
well provide this set of package and the cygwin setup program and let
the user install the thing by himself. This would save him the hassle of
choosing the package he needs for cygwin/mingw lyx compilation and
prevent him from installing unwanted packages (gcc, etc).
Thanks anyway,
Abdel.
Enrico Forestieri a écrit :
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 03:04:26PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
Enrico Forestieri a écrit :
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:58:43AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
What is the equivalent of /etc/fstab on cygwin? This information is in
the registry?
There is no /etc/fstab on cygwin and yes, the information is stored
in the registry but you should use "mount" both to access and modify
it. On cygwin, the mount points are the only thing which is stored in
the registry.
In a cygwin shell try:
ls "/proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Cygnus Solutions/Cygwin/mounts
v2"
Gives:
/ /lyxsrc /lyxtrunk /usr/bin /usr/lib cygdrive flags cygdrive prefix
or
ls "/proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Cygnus Solutions/Cygwin/mounts v2"
Gives nothing. I guess this is because Cygwin is installed for all users.
Yes
So if I provide a script like this:
mount -f -s -b "D:/cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin"
mount -f -s -b "D:/cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib"
mount -f -s -b "D:/cygwin" "/"
mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/cygdrive"
and tell the user to execute it within the cygwin console the first time
he uses it, it should work?
You have to tell them replacing "D:/cygwin" with the actual path where
the cygwin folder has been placed.
What about the users? Will cygwin create automatically "/home/joe" for
user "joe"?
Given that you are giving them a verbatim copy of your cygwin
installation, they will also have /etc/passwd where the users
are defined. However, it must be synced with the User Manager GUI.
Users and home dirs can be created using "mkpasswd", and I suggest
that you read its man page (man mkpasswd).
You can redirect them to the cygwin FAQ, specifically questions
2.11 and 2.18 apply. Here is an excerpt:
2.11. My Windows logon name has a space in it, will this cause problems?
Most definitely yes! UNIX shells (and thus Cygwin) use the space character
as a word delimiter. Under certain circumstances, it is possible to get
around this with various shell quoting mechanisms, but you are much better
off if you can avoid the problem entirely.
On Windows NT/2000/XP you have two choices:
1. You can rename the user in the Windows User Manager GUI and then run
mkpasswd.
2. You can simply edit the /etc/passwd file and change the Cygwin user
name (first field). It's also a good idea to avoid spaces in the home
directory.
On Windows 95/98/ME you can create a new user and run mkpasswd, or you can
delete the offending entry from /etc/passwd. Cygwin will then use the name
in the default entry with uid 500.
...
2.18. How do I save, restore, delete, or modify the Cygwin information
stored in the registry?
Currently Cygwin stores its mount table information in the registry. It is
recommended that you use the mount and umount commands to manipulate the
mount information instead of directly modifying the registry.
To save the mount information to a file for later restoration, use
mount -m > mounts.bat To remove all mount information use umount -A.
To reincorporate saved mount information just run the batch file. For
more information on using mount, see
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount.
