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RE: Installation How-To Draft
- To: "Chris Faylor" <cgf at cygnus dot com>, <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: Installation How-To Draft
- From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:15:14 -0400
>
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:05:14AM -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> >I am not sure why you need to chmod. It must be your Windows NT setup
> >which alters permissions when files are extracted?
>
> Ditto. Since the DLLs are loaded by Windows, I don't know why permissions
> matter.
>
> Or are they loaded via dlopen()? I guess that could make a difference.
no dlopen()
in cygwin.cf I have DlOpen NO.
Windows NT 4 has an option which Administrator can set, it
changes permissions on file (check Microsoft Knowledge Base).
I suspect he has that unique option set under his ENV.
Suhaib
>
> cgf
>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> >> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Olivier
> >> Jacquemin
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 7:44 AM
> >> To: 'cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com'
> >> Subject: RE: Installation How-To Draft
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> The installation how-to document seems seems very good to me
> (thanks for
> >> this), except for one point: IMO the
> >> 'chmod o+x,u+x,g+x *.dll'
> >> step should be added to the installation steps. I had to find this
> >> information in the mailing list archive (otherwise all
> applications failed
> >> with error code 0xc0000022). Or even better: isn't it
> possible to put set
> >> the right mode *before* building the tar ball in which they are
> >> distributed
> >> ? This seems to be the case for dlls distributed with the Cygwin
> >> platform...
> >> Apart from this, my first installation went fine on my PC
> (running Win NT
> >> 4.0 SP 6).
> >> Thanks again,
> >>
> >> _Olivier_
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: Harold Hunt [SMTP:Harold@compasstechnologies.com]
> >> > Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 2:24 AM
> >> > To: Cygx (E-mail)
> >> > Subject: Installation How-To Draft
> >> >
> >> > Please check out my Installation How-To draft at
> >> > http://63.106.166.5/KB/HowTo/CygXFreeInstall.htm
> >> >
> >> > I think I have permissions setup properly on that machine to
> >> allow you all
> >> > to read the document; please let me know if you find otherwise.
> >> >
> >> > Umm... just so everyone knows, that machine is owned by my
> >> employer, whom
> >> > has nothing to do with X, so please mirror the document if you
> >> would like
> >> > to
> >> > point others to it.
> >> >
> >> > Let me know any of your tips and suggestions. I hope you like it,