Re: Installation How-To Draft

[Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 05:51:15PM +0200, Olivier Jacquemin wrote:
>Harold,
>
>My PC is part of a domain.  I am also part of the Administrators group of my
>machine.
>
>An 'ls -l *.dll' gives the following result if I do it just after
>un-tarring:
>-rw-r--r--   1 oja      None        72704 Jul 16 19:30 libICE.dll
>-rw-r--r--   1 oja      None       203776 Jul 16 19:30 libPEX5.dll
>-rw-r--r--   1 oja      None        29184 Jul 16 19:30 libSM.dll
>
>An important difference with your result is that the owner is myself instead
>of "administ".  This is due to the fact that my bash prompt is "oja@Pc_oja"
>instead of "administrator@Pc_oja" (and I don't remember how to change this).
>
>Now I have reduced the necessary command for correct initialization of X to
>'chmod u+x *.dll'
>Of course, I can get the same result by adding "Execute (X)" permission for
>user OJA on all these files using the GUI of Win NT.
>
>I hope you will find this information useful.

What Cygwin options are you using?

As I've previously indicated, 'chmod u+x' really should only has meaning to
Cygwin and only if you are using a specific option in the Cygwin
environment variable.

cgf