Re: bin dir not created during cygwin setup in Win2kPro

[Peter Davis <pediddle at pediddle dot net>]

On Wed, 2003/02/12 02:09:47 -0800, Peter Davis <pediddle@pediddle.net> wrote:
> start Cygwin, it bombed -- the c:\cygwin\bin and \usr\bin directories are
> not there!
> 
> Everything else is, including c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\*, but of course I
> can't run any of those programs because the cygwin DLL's are also missing.

and on 2002/10/24, Jim Langston wrote:
> It was pointing the bin directory to the directory of some other SSH
> program I had installed earlier.

Yes, that turned out to be my problem.  I had apparantly installed OpenSSH
at some point a while ago (possibly from installing Putty ssh client?  I
can't remember.).

This is still a problem with the installer though: if you don't want
to overwrite any old registry values with the new install locations, the
various .bat files and other settings that expect the /bin and /usr
heirarchy to be under Cygwin's root need to be updated.  Or something
needs to be done, or at least some notification that the heirarchies don't
match.  My two cents.

--
Peter Davis <pediddle@pediddle.net>
Furthermore, I believe bacon prevents hair loss!

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