An easier way to fix all these problems everyone is talking about is to
create mounting points. In Cygnus' setup documentation, they actually
recommend mounting /tmp, /etc, /bin, and /. (/ is usually already mounted
to c:\ or something)
Here's how to mount: (just use the command "mount" to see your current
mount table, and the command "umount" to un-mount a path.
BASH>mount Drive:\\Path /mountpoint
OR >mount /unix-path /mountpoint, where "/" must be already mounted (i
think)
So for example, use the following command to mount /tmp to the temp
directory on your C: drive
BASH>mount C:\\Temp /tmp
...and the /bin dir:
BASH>mount d:\\cygnus\\cygwin-b20\\H-i586-cygwin32\\bin /bin
* You need to use two "\"'s, not just one if you use the absolute DOS-PATH,
or you can mount the Unix equivalent as well (Cygnus can use both), but if
you do you have to make sure that your "root" directory is mounted
properly, ie. "/".
These mounting points are stored in the registry, and they can be editted
there as well. The key is: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus
Solutions\Cygwin.dll setup\b15.0\mounts\.....
Here is what my mount table looks like:
Device Directory Type Flags
c:\temp /tmp native text!=binary
d:\stuff\mud /mud native text!=binary
e: /games native text!=binary
d:\cygnus\cygwin~1\etc /etc native text!=binary
g: /cdrom native text!=binary
d:\cygnus\cygwin~1\H-i586~1\bin /bin native
text!=binary
f: /archive native text!=binary
d: /apps native text!=binary
a: /a native text!=binary
C: / native text!=binary
Mounting is much nicer than dealing with symbolic links.
sT
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Robbins [SMTP:tonyr@pacific101.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 1999 10:48 AM
To: CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca
Subject: Re: [NEWBIE] More Cygnus questions
All these problems with Cygnus leave me slightly baffled. I thought there
was a FAQ[1] for some of this stuff, but here's some stuff that I did to
make mine work fine.
The Configure Script
--------------------
The problem with the configure script is that the first line:
#!/bin/sh
is referring to a command that isn't present in /bin. One solution is to
copy a bunch of stuff into /bin, but the other, more logical way to solve
the problem makes use of Cygnus' Linux-like setup. A symbolic link will
take care of all of this stuff.
BASH.EXE-2.02$ ln -s /cygnus/cygwin-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/bin /bin
This makes it so all of your command files can be referenced from the /bin
folder. Realize that /cygnus corresponds to c:\cygnus, so you nee to make
sure you use the name of the folder that you specified during your cygnus
installation.
Temporary Folder
----------------
You also need a /tmp folder. I did another symbolic link to my
C:\WINDOWS\TEMP (/windows/temp) so my temporary files are all taken care of
at one time.
For more information on ln, the symbolic linker, type ln --help inside your
Cygnus (or Linux) shell.
Hope that helps,
-B.
1. Maybe I'm just thinking of the time I wrote a FAQ for it. My computer
locked up before I saved it.
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