[OT] Re: question about cygwin package

2010-02-27 Thread Dave Korn
On 27/02/2010 18:19, Vincent Richomme wrote: > $ gcc test.c > gcc.exe: CreateProcess: No such file or directory > > If instead of putting gcc files inside a usr folder I put it directly the > archive root it works fine. Add '-v' to see how gcc is using relative paths to look for cc1.exe (and p

Re: question about cygwin package

2010-02-27 Thread Vincent Richomme
I have a last question that might reminds you something (at least I hope so) and unfortunately that is beyond this mailing list but I chance it I am working on a msys/mingw installer(EasyMingw) where instead of the default crappy toolchain(very personal opinion I encourage you to make yours) I am i

Re: question about cygwin package

2010-02-26 Thread Eric Blake
According to Vincent Richomme on 2/26/2010 12:05 PM: > however once installed it will end up inside CYGWINDIR/bin > and not CYGWINDIR/usr/bin. That's all due to the magic of mount points - in cygwin, /bin and /usr/bin are two spellings for the same directory from cygwin's point of view (unless you

Re: question about cygwin package

2010-02-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:05:16PM +0100, Vincent Richomme wrote: >Hi, > >I am just curious to understand how package are installed on cygwin >because from what I can see they are stored as .tar.bz2 archive. >Let's say I have a package with one exe, so it will be packaged >inside \usr\bin : > >usr

question about cygwin package

2010-02-26 Thread Vincent Richomme
Hi, I am just curious to understand how package are installed on cygwin because from what I can see they are stored as .tar.bz2 archive. Let's say I have a package with one exe, so it will be packaged inside \usr\bin : usr bin someapp.exe however once installed it will end up inside CYGWIN