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RE: A trick for installing cygwin natively




> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chris Faylor [SMTP:cgf@cygnus.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, September 07, 1999 12:59
> To:	cygwin-developers@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject:	A trick for installing cygwin natively
> 
> I've been having a devil of a time lately (sorry, I've just watched
> two
> British movies in a row) trying to install a complete source tree into
> a
> new "root" cygwin directory.  Every time, the top level make install
> hit
> the winsup directory, the installation would go crazy because it was
> installing a new cygwin1.dll and the /bin/sh that was being run was
> using
> the old one.
> 
> I tried making sure that nothing in the new root directory was in the
> path but that didn't help because many things reference /bin/sh
> directory.  I tried renaming the dll out of the way, which worked, but
> fork didn't like that at all.
> 
> My solution is to do this:
> 
> mount -b c:\oldcygwin\bin\sh.exe /bin/sh
> 
> Then, any time that somebody (i.e., make) wants to run /bin/sh it uses
> the older version of both /bin/sh and the cygwin1.dll.
> 
> It works great.
> 
> I thought that I'd pass this tidbit along in case anyone else was
> having
> similar difficulties.
> 
> -chris
[Andrew Dalgleish]  
I'm not sure I understand.
Actually I am sure I don't understand. :-)

Apparently you can mount files as well as directories.
Neat trick, but how does that help with the dll version skew problems?

Why won't "mount -b c:\oldcygwin\bin /bin" do the same thing?

(I think I just answered my own question.
You are mounting the "old" sh.exe over the top of your "new" /bin
directory.
Because of the path search sequence Windows uses, loads the DLL from the
same directory as the .EXE, but that directory is not your new /bin.
Am I close?
If so, it is a very neat trick.)


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