RE: Can't install cygwin using setup - says completed sucessfully but no bin or var directories

[Tom Gilbert <Tom dot Gilbert at vmusicstores dot com>]

Hi Christopher,

Thanks very much for replying.

>> Note that the CygWin setup MADE NO ATTEMPT TO DETECT THIS!!!
> Calm down.  Actually, Cygwin setup did detect this.  The OpenSSH
> installation apparently screwed up your mount table.

Sorry, I forgot that CAPS implies shouting. I meant only *emphasis* not an
attack!

I guess I don't understand your answer. Surely a successfull
LoadLibrary("cygwin1.dll") call would tell you there is another cygwin1.dll
on the system and this could be reported to the user, or logged somewhere? 

> setup.exe had no way of knowing that your mount table was not set up to
your liking, so
it honored it.

I don't know what a mount table is on Windows.
But surely if the install is honoring a particular system config, then the
bin and var directories would have gone somewhere else on the system? They
did not.

All I know is that the installation finished with a message saying it
worked, no warning about possible DLL conflicts, and instructions to change
to a path that didn't exist, with no suggestions as to what to do!

> We're hard at work on the mind-reading plugin for setup.exe but it isn't
quite ready yet.

:-) Not required in this case!

Once the other version was removed, CygWin installed just fine and thanks
for the software. I am also a free software author and know what it's like
getting hassle for stuff you've given away (alteredworlds.com).

Thinking about it from the point of view of potential users, surely I
identified a problem that very many users might come into contact with, and
also suggested a valid solution? 
I always used to be grateful to people who did this for my software...

I would bet that 90% of people installing this (in my case to look at
PostgreSQL) haven't the faintest clue what a mount table might be on
Windows, nor do they care - but whatever help they can get to make it work
is very gratefully received! 

anyway, once again I have no desire to piss you off so hope this email
doesn't read that way.

take it easy,

Tom Gilbert

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf-cygwin at cygwin dot com]
Sent: 27 February 2003 14:58
To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
Subject: Re: Can't install cygwin using setup - says completed
sucessfully but no bin or var directories



  

If you want to yell at someone, yell at the OpenSSH installation which
screwed up your mount table.  Either that or we'll cheerfully refund the
purchase price of the software.

Btw, it's not "CygWin".  It's "Cygwin".

cgf