Hello. I recently did a completely clean install of
Cygwin on my W2k workstation. My goal was to get the
"maximal" binary+source distribution. This went fine,
except that the source packages were installed directly
into my cygwin "root" directory:
$ cd /
$ ls
autoconf-2.13 gettext-0.10.35 readline-4.1
automake-1.4 grep-2.4.2-1 regex-4.4
bash-2.04 groff-1.11 sbin
bin home setup.log
binutils-20001221-1 inetutils-1.3.2 setup.log.full
bison-1.28-1 jbigkit-1.2 squid-2.4.PRE-STABLE
bzip2-1.0.1 jpeg-6b src
clear-1.0 less-358-2 tar-1.13.18-3
cpio-2.4.2 lib tcltk-20001125-1
cvs-1.11.0 libpng-1.0.9 tcsh-6.10.00
..... etc. etc.
Did I do something wrong? I expected the source
packages to be installed under /src or /usr/src --
I don't remember setup.exe asking me to explicitly
choose a location for these packages.
If this is in fact the default behavior, it should be
changed IMHO...tell me if I'm mistaken.
What are the implications if I manually move these
directories into /src or /usr/src -- will my
intstallation get out of sync with some "magic" log
files or registry entries (a common occurrence on
Windows) ?
Thanks,
Chad Loder
P.S. -- I describe my install process:
First I tried the "Install from Internet" option,
but of course this was quite slow (I think it
established a new FTP session for each package?).
So I then chose the "Download from Internet" option,
selected EVERY package that I could possibly select,
and downloaded it into a "local package directory"
of C:\temp\cyg. Then I re-ran setup.exe and chose
"Install from Local Directory", specifying that
download directory. I chose "C:\cygwin" as my root
directory, and selected every available package.
The install completed without errors, except that
all of these package source directories were dumped
into the root.
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