Re: setup/symlinks/gcc/chown question

2005-12-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 02:02:05PM -0800, Karl M wrote: >Thanks Corinna...it works now with the latest snapshot. > >Is there any way to get the date and time of a snapshot on the Cygwin >web page, instead of just the date? Because sometimes the snapshots >change more than once per day, perhaps the

Re: setup/symlinks/gcc/chown question

2005-12-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 21 14:02, Karl M wrote: > Hi All... > > Thanks Corinna...it works now with the latest snapshot. > > Is there any way to get the date and time of a snapshot on the Cygwin web > page, instead of just the date? Because sometimes the snapshots change more > than once per day, perhaps the tim

Re: setup/symlinks/gcc/chown question

2005-12-21 Thread Karl M
well. Thanks for the help. ...Karl From: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: setup/symlinks/gcc/chown question Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:37:32 +0100 On Dec 20 20:28, Karl M wrote: > Hi All... > > Attached is the output of > > strace -o outfile chown -h administrators.none collect2.ex

Re: setup/symlinks/gcc/chown question

2005-12-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 20 20:28, Karl M wrote: > Hi All... > > Attached is the output of > > strace -o outfile chown -h administrators.none collect2.exe Thanks, that strace was helpful. I've applied a patch. Please test the next snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

Re: setup/symlinks/gcc/chown question

2005-12-20 Thread Karl M
From: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: setup/symlinks/gcc/chown question Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:15:59 +0100 On Dec 19 09:37, Karl M wrote: > Hi All... > > I see the broken links on any machine I use. I run as a restricted user, > except when I am installing or updating software. Here is

Re: setup/symlinks/gcc/chown question

2005-12-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 19 09:37, Karl M wrote: > Hi All... > > I see the broken links on any machine I use. I run as a restricted user, > except when I am installing or updating software. Here is the way I do the > initial install (to prevent permissions leaks)... Well, I still can't reproduce it and I didn't

Re: setup/symlinks/gcc/chown question

2005-12-19 Thread Karl M
nd which chown report /usr/bin/chmod and /usr/bin/chown respectively. For the sequence I reported yesterday, I was running as administrator. Thanks, ...Karl From: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: setup/symlinks/gcc/chown question Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:12:26 +0100 On Dec 18 15:51, Karl M wrote: &

Re: setup/symlinks/gcc/chown question

2005-12-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 18 15:51, Karl M wrote: > Hi All... > > It appears to be file permissions related. The link being broken looks like > it is because the read only bit on the shortcut file (the .lnk file) is > getting turned off. Even though this first getfacl shows write access, the > read only box in th

Re: setup/symlinks/gcc/chown question

2005-12-18 Thread Karl M
c1.exe From: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: setup/symlinks/gcc/chown question Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:20:27 +0100 On Dec 18 09:56, Karl M wrote: > Hi All... > > I just installed gcc/mingw with setup. > > If I do > > cd /lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/3.4.4 > chown -R administr

Re: setup/symlinks/gcc/chown question

2005-12-18 Thread Karl M
to gcc -mno-cygwin... giving me an error that it an't fine cc1.exe). If I delete and create the link myself (ln -s ../../i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4.cc1.exe), then all is well and chown -h (or -R) does not break it. Thanks, ...Karl From: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: setup/symlinks/g

Re: setup/symlinks/gcc/chown question

2005-12-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 18 09:56, Karl M wrote: > Hi All... > > I just installed gcc/mingw with setup. > > If I do > > cd /lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/3.4.4 > chown -R administrators.none * > > it breaks the symlinks in the directory. I can't see any problem. What does that mean "it breaks the symlinks"? How do t

RE: setup/symlinks/gcc/chown question

2005-12-18 Thread Karl M
Hi All... A chown -h causes the same problem as a chown -R. So, the second script does not work around the problem...it does avoid damaging the link, but after the install, the ownership on the links are administrator.none and so I can run gcc -mno-cygwin... as a restricted user. So for now I