I believe I have I found the problem, although I also believe it is indicative of a bug in the installation program.
The output from the cygcheck program (see below) shows me the entries in the registry point to the PDFMerge directory. Evidently this is what sets the location of the bin\ and terminfo\ directories - which was the question I asked in the original email. My guess is the user of the machine I was installing on mistakenly tried to install here in the first place. However, evidently the installation program, probably due to a bug, doesn't properly reset these values once they are set, regardless of what is entered during subsequent re-installs, unless one wipes the registry manually. I am going to drop the entire HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\ tree, delete the c:\cygwin directory and reinstall from scratch. I think this will fix everything. (I know I could probably just change the registry entries, but I don't trust that something somewhere else is already screwed up because of this, so I would rather have a vanilla install). Thanks to Christopher Faylor for your kind assistance. I appreciate people who really try to help. -alan Below is the output from cygcheck. Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Fri Jan 20 13:13:18 2006 Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 Path: C:\Oracle\product\10.1.0\bin C:\Oracle\product\jdk\jre\bin\classic C:\Oracle\product\jdk\jre\bin C:\Oracle\product\jdk\jre\bin\client C:\Oracle\product\jlib C:\Oracle\product\jre\1.1.8\bin C:\Oracle\product\10.1.0\jre\1.4.2\bin\client C:\Oracle\product\10.1.0\jre\1.4.2\bin C:\Oracle\product\10.1.0\Client_1\jre\1.4.2\bin\client C:\Oracle\product\10.1.0\Client_1\jre\1.4.2\bin C:\WINDOWS\system32 C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adaptec Shared\System C:\orant\jdk\bin C:\Program Files\Symantec\pcAnywhere\ C:\Program Files\ZipGenius 6\ C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\ Output from c:\downloads\PDFMerge\bin\id.exe (nontsec) UID: 11663(svallabhaneni) GID: 10545(mkgroup-l-d) 0(root) 544(Administrators) 545(Users) 10545(mkgroup-l-d) Output from c:\downloads\PDFMerge\bin\id.exe (ntsec) UID: 11663(svallabhaneni) GID: 10545(mkgroup-l-d) 0(root) 544(Administrators) 545(Users) 10545(mkgroup-l-d) SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\system32 WinDir: C:\WINDOWS Path = 'C:\Oracle\product\10.1.0\bin;C:\Oracle\product\jdk\jre\bin\classic;C:\Oracle\product\jdk\jre\bin;C:\Oracle\product\jdk\jre\bin\client;C:\Oracle\product\jlib;C:\Oracle\product\jre\1.1.8\bin;C:\Oracle\product\10.1.0\jre\1.4.2\bin\client;C:\Oracle\product\10.1.0\jre\1.4.2\bin;C:\Oracle\product\10.1.0\Client_1\jre\1.4.2\bin\client;C:\Oracle\product\10.1.0\Client_1\jre\1.4.2\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adaptec Shared\System;C:\orant\jdk\bin;C:\Program Files\Symantec\pcAnywhere\;C:\Program Files\ZipGenius 6\;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\' ALLUSERSPROFILE = 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users' APPDATA = 'C:\Documents and Settings\svallabhaneni\Application Data' CLASSPATH = 'C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_04\lib\ext\QTJava.zip' CLIENTNAME = 'Console' CommonProgramFiles = 'C:\Program Files\Common Files' COMPUTERNAME = 'SUDHA' ComSpec = 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' FP_NO_HOST_CHECK = 'NO' HOMEDRIVE = 'C:' HOMEPATH = '\Documents and Settings\svallabhaneni' LOGONSERVER = '\\HD-AUSTIN' NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS = '2' OS = 'Windows_NT' PATHEXT = '.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH' PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE = 'x86' PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER = 'x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 4, GenuineIntel' PROCESSOR_LEVEL = '15' PROCESSOR_REVISION = '0304' ProgramFiles = 'C:\Program Files' PROMPT = '$P$G' QTJAVA = 'C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_04\lib\ext\QTJava.zip' SESSIONNAME = 'Console' SystemDrive = 'C:' SystemRoot = 'C:\WINDOWS' TEMP = 'C:\DOCUME~1\SVALLA~1\LOCALS~1\Temp' TMP = 'C:\DOCUME~1\SVALLA~1\LOCALS~1\Temp' USERDNSDOMAIN = 'HIGHLINEDATA.COM' USERDOMAIN = 'HIGHLINEDATA' USERNAME = 'svallabhaneni' USERPROFILE = 'C:\Documents and Settings\svallabhaneni' windir = 'C:\WINDOWS' POSIXLY_CORRECT = '1' HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 (default) = '/cygdrive' cygdrive flags = 0x00000022 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/ (default) = 'C:\cygwin' flags = 0x0000000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/bin (default) = 'c:\downloads\PDFMerge\bin' flags = 0x0000000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/tmp (default) = 'C:\DOCUME~1\SVALLA~1\LOCALS~1\Temp' flags = 0x0000000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/bin (default) = 'c:\downloads\PDFMerge\bin' flags = 0x0000000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/lib (default) = 'C:\cygwin/lib' flags = 0x0000000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/share/terminfo (default) = 'c:\downloads\PDFMerge\terminfo' flags = 0x0000000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options a: fd N/A N/A c: hd NTFS 76245Mb 33% CP CS UN PA FC d: cd N/A N/A e: net NTFS 69447Mb 77% CP CS UN PA FC f: net NTFS 69447Mb 77% CP CS UN PA FC g: net NTFS 20002Mb 81% CP CS UN PA FC Crab k: net NTFS 150220Mb 7% CP CS PA docq l: net NTFS 69447Mb 77% CP CS UN PA FC m: net NTFS 119734Mb 50% CP CS UN PA FC Data n: net NTFS 32059Mb 80% CP CS UN PA FC Rosette p: net NTFS 19163Mb 6% CP CS UN PA FC Print_Products x: net NTFS 4581Mb 11% CP CS UN PA FC Horse_Head y: net NTFS 69447Mb 77% CP CS UN PA FC z: net NTFS 150220Mb 7% CP CS PA docq C:\cygwin / system binmode c:\downloads\PDFMerge\bin /bin system binmode C:\DOCUME~1\SVALLA~1\LOCALS~1\Temp /tmp system binmode c:\downloads\PDFMerge\bin /usr/bin system binmode C:\cygwin/lib /usr/lib system binmode c:\downloads\PDFMerge\terminfo /usr/share/terminfo system binmode . /cygdrive system binmode,cygdrive Found: C:\cygwin\bin\awk.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cp.exe Not Found: cpp (good!) Not Found: crontab Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe Not Found: gcc Not Found: gdb Found: C:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\kill.exe Not Found: ld Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe Not Found: make Found: C:\cygwin\bin\mv.exe Not Found: perl Found: C:\cygwin\bin\rm.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe Not Found: ssh Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\test.exe Not Found: vi Not Found: vim 56k 2005/07/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygbz2-1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygbz2-1.dll" v0.0 ts=2005/7/9 0:09 7k 2005/11/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygcharset-1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygcharset-1.dll" v0.0 ts=2005/11/19 20:24 40k 2005/09/29 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform-8.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygform-8.dll" v0.0 ts=2005/9/28 21:15 45k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygform5.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/4/25 0:28 35k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform6.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygform6.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/1/9 0:03 48k 2003/08/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform7.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygform7.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/8/9 4:25 28k 2003/07/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm-3.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cyggdbm-3.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/7/20 2:58 30k 2003/08/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm-4.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cyggdbm-4.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/8/10 21:12 19k 2003/03/22 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cyggdbm.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/2/19 21:05 15k 2003/07/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm_compat-3.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cyggdbm_compat-3.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/7/20 3:00 15k 2003/08/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm_compat-4.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cyggdbm_compat-4.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/8/10 21:13 17k 2001/06/28 C:\cygwin\bin\cyghistory4.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cyghistory4.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/1/6 22:34 29k 2003/08/10 C:\cygwin\bin\cyghistory5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cyghistory5.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/8/10 18:16 24k 2005/07/29 C:\cygwin\bin\cyghistory6.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cyghistory6.dll" v0.0 ts=2005/7/28 22:57 947k 2005/11/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygiconv-2.dll" v0.0 ts=2005/11/19 20:24 22k 2001/12/13 C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygintl-1.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/12/13 3:28 37k 2003/08/10 C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-2.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygintl-2.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/8/10 16:50 31k 2005/11/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-3.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygintl-3.dll" v0.0 ts=2005/11/19 20:04 21k 2001/06/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygintl.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/6/20 12:09 21k 2005/09/29 C:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu-8.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygmenu-8.dll" v0.0 ts=2005/9/28 21:15 26k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygmenu5.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/4/25 0:27 20k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu6.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygmenu6.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/1/9 0:03 29k 2003/08/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu7.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygmenu7.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/8/9 4:25 67k 2005/09/29 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++-8.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygncurses++-8.dll" v0.0 ts=2005/9/28 21:16 156k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygncurses++5.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/4/25 0:29 175k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++6.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygncurses++6.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/1/9 0:03 226k 2005/09/29 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses-8.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygncurses-8.dll" v0.0 ts=2005/9/28 21:02 226k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygncurses5.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/4/25 0:17 202k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses6.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygncurses6.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/1/9 0:03 224k 2003/08/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses7.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygncurses7.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/8/9 4:24 11k 2005/09/29 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel-8.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygpanel-8.dll" v0.0 ts=2005/9/28 21:15 15k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygpanel5.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/4/25 0:27 12k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel6.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygpanel6.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/1/9 0:03 19k 2003/08/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel7.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygpanel7.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/8/9 4:24 176k 2005/09/06 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpcre-0.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygpcre-0.dll" v0.0 ts=2005/9/6 15:49 299k 2005/09/06 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpcrecpp-0.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygpcrecpp-0.dll" v0.0 ts=2005/9/6 16:26 6k 2005/09/06 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpcreposix-0.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygpcreposix-0.dll" v0.0 ts=2005/9/6 16:26 22k 2002/06/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpopt-0.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygpopt-0.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/6/9 0:45 108k 2001/06/28 C:\cygwin\bin\cygreadline4.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygreadline4.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/1/6 22:34 148k 2003/08/10 C:\cygwin\bin\cygreadline5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygreadline5.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/8/10 18:16 144k 2005/07/29 C:\cygwin\bin\cygreadline6.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygreadline6.dll" v0.0 ts=2005/7/28 22:57 65k 2005/08/23 C:\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygz.dll" v0.0 ts=2005/8/22 21:03 1763k 2006/01/18 C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2006/1/18 10:15 Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version: 1.5.19 DLL epoch: 19 DLL bad signal mask: 19005 DLL old termios: 5 DLL malloc env: 28 API major: 0 API minor: 150 Shared data: 4 DLL identifier: cygwin1 Mount registry: 2 Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions Cygwin registry name: Cygwin Program options name: Program Options Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2 Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix Cygdrive default prefix: Build date: Wed Jan 18 11:15:33 EST 2006 Shared id: cygwin1S4 No Cygwin services found. Cygwin Package Information Last downloaded files to: C:\Documents and Settings\svallabhaneni\My Documents Last downloaded files from: ftp://mirror.averse.net/pub/cygwin Package Version _update-info-dir 00347-1 alternatives 1.3.20a-2 ash 20040127-3 base-files 3.6-1 base-passwd 2.2-1 bash 3.0-14 bzip2 1.0.3-1 coreutils 5.93-2 crypt 1.1-1 cygrunsrv 1.12-1 cygutils 1.2.9-1 cygwin 1.5.19-3 cygwin-doc 1.4-3 diffutils 2.8.7-1 editrights 1.01-1 expat 1.95.8-1 findutils 4.2.27-1 fontconfig 2.2.2-1 freetype2 2.1.9-1 gawk 3.1.5-2 gdbm 1.8.3-7 gettext 0.14.5-1 grep 2.5.1a-2 groff 1.18.1-2 gzip 1.3.5-1 less 381-1 libbz2_1 1.0.3-1 libcharset1 1.9.2-2 libfontconfig1 2.2.2-1 libfreetype26 2.1.9-1 libgdbm 1.8.0-5 libgdbm-devel 1.8.3-7 libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 libgdbm4 1.8.3-7 libiconv 1.9.2-2 libiconv2 1.9.2-2 libintl 0.10.38-3 libintl1 0.10.40-1 libintl2 0.12.1-3 libintl3 0.14.5-1 libncurses5 5.2-1 libncurses6 5.2-8 libncurses7 5.3-4 libncurses8 5.4-4 libpcre0 6.3-1 libpopt0 1.6.4-4 libreadline4 4.1-2 libreadline5 4.3-5 libreadline6 5.0-4 libXft 2.1.6-1 libXft1 1.0.0-1 libXft2 2.1.6-1 login 1.9-7 man 1.5p-1 minires 1.00-1 mktemp 1.5-3 ncurses 5.4-4 openssh 4.2p1-1 openssl 0.9.8a-1 openssl097 0.9.7i-1 pcre 6.3-1 pcre-devel 6.3-1 pcre-doc 6.3-1 run 1.1.6-1 sed 4.1.4-1 tar 1.15.1-3 termcap 20050421-1 terminfo 5.4_20041009-1 texinfo 4.8-1 which 1.7-1 X-start-menu-icons 1.0.4-1 X-startup-scripts 1.0.11-1 xorg-x11-base 6.8.2.0-1 xorg-x11-bin 6.8.2.0-1 xorg-x11-bin-dlls 6.8.2.0-1 xorg-x11-bin-lndir 6.8.2.0-1 xorg-x11-etc 6.8.2.0-1 xorg-x11-fenc 6.8.1.0-2 xorg-x11-fnts 6.8.1.0-3 xorg-x11-libs-data 6.8.2.0-1 xorg-x11-xwin 6.8.2.0-4 xterm 202-1 zlib 1.2.3-1 Use -h to see help about each section --- Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Alan Ramsey wrote: > > > > Apparently, the PDFMerge program uses its own > > > min-cygwin distribution. > > > > I don't know if that is the case or not. PDFMerge > is > > no longer installed on that machine. I searched > for > > the Cygwin1.dll on the entire machine and am only > > finding the ones that I installed, so I don't > think > > this is the problem. > > > > > .. other than to advise that you redo your > installation > > > and use c:\cygwin as the root rather than > letting > > > setup.exe use the existing root set up by > PDFMerge. > > > > How do I do that? I have tried reinstalling > several > > time, including deleting all the cygwin > directories > > that I know of and entering c:\cygwin into the > > installation program. It still wants to go to the > > PDFMerge directory. Where does the installation > > program get the root directory from? > > Please read and follow the Cygwin problem reporting > guidelines at > > > Problem reports: > http://cygwin.com/problems.html > > to provide enough information about your system for > us to be able to help > you. > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. > (name changed!) > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor > Pechtchanski > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a > JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. 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