re: 1.7.9: Installing error: fonts and X-start-menu-icons

[James Botte <jbotte at physics dot carleton dot ca>]

Sigh...

I thought I had things working, but... the more I used it, the more I'm 
realizing that all of my woes are because I was trying to install it on a 
Samba share. I have done the same thing on my local hard drive (which 
doesn't have much space, which is why I was trying to install it on the 
network drive), and I've had no issues.

What I found is that pretty much everything was screwed up in subtle and 
bizarre ways: from the PATH variable not even being followed properly 
(the Windows "find" was being used even though /usr/bin was in the PATH 
before /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32), to constant problems with execute 
permissions. Funny enough, I was able to get the X Server running and did 
manage to run an xterm and xcalc, although I didn't attempt to run 
anything else before turning back to some basics.

In short, kindly disregard my long report... I don't think it has anything 
to do with the Cygwin installation, and a lot to do with interaction with 
Samba's view of the world. I suspect that it could eventually be made to 
work (turn on xattrs and acls on the filesystems for instance), but it's 
not worth the effort at this time to labour through it. I'll find the 
space necessary on my local drive ;).

Sorry to trouble.


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