Re: Odd directory created when installing 1.7

2010-10-29 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Ven 29/10/10, Matteo Cortese ha scritto: > I've not seen any follow up on this issue for some time, > and in fact I've just experienced a failure of bash's > postinstall script fails due to the strange way DEVDIR is > built. Matteo, I don't understand. The bash postinstall script have nor D

Re: Odd directory created when installing 1.7

2010-10-29 Thread Matteo Cortese
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Eric said >>> DEVDIR="$(cygpath -au "C:/$(cygpath -am /dev/)" | sed 's|/c/\(.\):/|/\1/|')" >>> mkdir -p "$DEVDIR" || result=1 >> >> Hmm, this looks kind of fragile. Not to say it looks wrong. > > I didn't invent this, but borrowed the idea from the old mkdev script > (did I

Re: Odd directory created when installing 1.7

2009-07-30 Thread Eric Blake
> > DEVDIR="$(cygpath -au "C:/$(cygpath -am /dev/)" | sed > 's|/c/\(.\):/|/\1/|')" > > mkdir -p "$DEVDIR" || result=1 > > Hmm, this looks kind of fragile. Not to say it looks wrong. > > $ cygpath -am /dev/ > C:/cygwin/dev > > Ok. > > $ echo "C:/$(cygpath -am /dev/)" > C:/C:/cygwin/dev I d

Re: Odd directory created when installing 1.7

2009-07-28 Thread Cliff Hones
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 28 14:43, Cliff Hones wrote: >> Cliff Hones wrote: >>> .. One further possibly useful piece >>> of informaion - the create timestamps on the odd directories are all the >>> same, and 14 seconds later than the timestamp on the correct "dev" >>> directory. >> Looking

Re: Odd directory created when installing 1.7

2009-07-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 28 14:43, Cliff Hones wrote: > Cliff Hones wrote: > > .. One further possibly useful piece > > of informaion - the create timestamps on the odd directories are all the > > same, and 14 seconds later than the timestamp on the correct "dev" > > directory. > > Looking at the install log, I se

Re: Odd directory created when installing 1.7

2009-07-28 Thread Cliff Hones
Cliff Hones wrote: > .. One further possibly useful piece > of informaion - the create timestamps on the odd directories are all the > same, and 14 seconds later than the timestamp on the correct "dev" directory. Looking at the install log, I see this timestamp matches the time the bash.sh postins

Re: Odd directory created when installing 1.7

2009-07-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 28 01:45, Cliff Hones wrote: > I installed 1.7 today for the first time, having deliberately waited > until near the end of beta testing out of cowardice (no; actually > because my use of Cygwin isn't that great at the moment, is not > particularly unusual, and unfortunately I've not had the

Odd directory created when installing 1.7

2009-07-27 Thread Cliff Hones
I installed 1.7 today for the first time, having deliberately waited until near the end of beta testing out of cowardice (no; actually because my use of Cygwin isn't that great at the moment, is not particularly unusual, and unfortunately I've not had the time I'd like to devote to tracking down bl