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"David A. Cobb" wrote: > > Thanks, all, for the help yesterday. It gave me just enough > knowledge (or rope) to shoot both feet off completely! > > --- Quoting (or paraphrasing) DJ: > > What setup are you using? > > Downloaded SETUP.EXE yesterday (G 2000-08-02) from Cygwin. Internal > Time Date Stamp = "39877dd0". > Used mirror at sunsite.utk.edu. > > --- From Earnie again, various corrections of the error messages I > reported. > > I went back and did it all again and wrote them down more > carefully. Could have used a log (some future release). > > 1) "error: unable to create symlink" > a) C://usr/include/mingw -> mingw32 > Note- I had indicated a backslant -- it isn't. > b) C://lib/libc.a -> libcygwin.a > c) C://lib/libg.a -> libcygwin.a [!] > d) C://lib/libm.a -> libcygwin.a [!!] > e) C://bin/awk.exe -> gawk.exe > f) C://lib/libstdc++.a -> libstdc++.a.2.10.0 > > 2) "tar: can't find %1 to link %2 to" > a) usr/bin/c++.exe C://bin/g++.exe > b) usr/bin/gcc.exe C://bin/i686-pc-cygwin-gcc.exe > c) usr/bin/logger.exe C://bin/syslog.exe > d) usr/bin/ctags.exe C://bin/etags.exe > > Plus many many of both messages in the "vim" install - too many to > write down. > > At the end "Can't open (null) for writing: \n No such file or > directory" > > OK, here's the latest. > > I thought (first error) that having my mounts textmode could be a > problem, so I changed them all to "mount -b -s -f" > Then I deleted _everything_ remotely related to the cygwin > installation except the "Mounts_V2" registry entries. > > I reran SETUP again - usually from <sunsite.utk.edu>, twice > <ygdrassl?>, once <freesoftware>. That's many times. When all has > been said and done, THERE IS NOTHING AT ALL IN /bin (or in /usr/bin, > or in any directory except /lib -- and that may be a leftover. > Evidently, setup thinks all the current versions are still there! > It didn't look to check. > > Now here is a real kicker -- nearly all of the same error messages > came up at the same points. I think the complaints about the > /lib/libc.a did not. SETUP cannot find the same things when it > shouldn't be able to find anything at all anywhere! > > Just in case it could have been misplaced, I did a Windows FIND on > *ash.exe" which should have two or more hits. It had none. > > This is like two squares before square one. Obviously I need help. > OK, guys, it's fixed, if not quite the way I might like. I deleted the whole registry key containing existing cygwin mounts, and went back to zero. Then, in SETUP.EXE, I did _NOT_ use my C:\ as root, I used a directory name "C:\@" (mostly because is sorts low). Everything downloaded and installed correctly, I can get into bash and launch a few things that I know how to use. OK, DJ, I know I was warned. Obviously, the "C://bin" display in the previous case was the key. The "//" must be a black hole. I'll take a look myself, come Monday. Good weekend again! -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "Don't buy or use crappy software" "By the grace of God I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner" -- The Way of a Pilgrim [R. M. French, tr.]
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