Re: How to install customised version of cygwin

2002-04-23 Thread rich-paul
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 10:44:20AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 03:55:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, you can find this trove of information at www.rich-paul.net. Have fun with it. One part of your installation instructions is ill-advised. Using

Re: Outlaw Cygwin Install

2002-04-23 Thread rich-paul
That works so long as the users come to that site to install and that site for support of the install. The current Cygwin policy is to offer email support for software it distributes. It's impractical to do otherwise. Also, the hope is that people who want to add features to anything

Re: How to install customised version of cygwin

2002-04-22 Thread rich-paul
Well, I quickly wrote up what I do to install cygwin. The first differance is that I use tar, not zip ... zip doesn't grok cygwin symlinks and such. Anyway, the good news is that setup.exe does almost nothing except install the files. creating the mountpoints is trivial, just export 'em with

Re: HELP: java path and classpath question

2002-02-17 Thread rich-paul
My suggestion is a simple patch and recompile to cygwin. There is a file called environ.cc. It contains the code that automaticly converts variables like PATH and HOME to cygwinformat when it enters cygwin, and back when it leaves. All you have to do is add the code preceded by the plus signs