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Re: Setup changes paths
- From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: "Latham, Justin" <justin dot latham at baesystems dot com>, "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 16:29:44 -0400
- Subject: Re: Setup changes paths
- References: <93DA0219FE13D511889F00508BCFEB9011D0FDA9@u02m02.usa02.na.baesystems.com>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 03:18 PM 4/20/2004, you wrote:
>My work pc is set up so that the c drive is too small for anything useful
>and all applications go on the d drive. The standard build of the pc is set
>up with Cygwin already installed. My issue is that the standard build
>doesn't have some components I need.
>
>However, setup.exe always installs updates to c:\cygwin, regardless of what
>I specify in the installer GUI. Future executions of the GUI indicate that
>these components are installed, but they won't run (give "can not find dll"
>errors, etc...). My registry paths BEFORE running setup all point to /,
>/usr/lib, and /usr/bin being on the d: drive in the correct place. My
>registry paths AFTER running setup have moved /usr/lib and /usr/bin to
>c:\cygwin. How do I keep the damn thing from installing to the wrong place?
>Just moving my cygwin install to c:\cygwin is not an option...
Can't say. It works for me (and always has). Perhaps looking at
/var/log/setup.log.full would be helpful.
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