Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: "Peter Ring" To: Cc: Subject: RE: setup, default mounts Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 01:44:43 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4029.2901 Ron Parker put me on the track with a pointer to the developers list, http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2000-02/threads.html#00132 . Thanx! I didn't think of searching the developers list. I don't need to waste diskspace with duplicate sets of binaries. If /bin just contains a few (turns out to be quite a few) mandatory binaries, I'm happy. By 'mandatory', I mean mandatory in the sense that the FHS defines it in section 3.1, "3.1 /bin Essential user command binaries (for use by all users)". The FHS list includes General commands cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, cp, date, dd, df, dmesg, echo, ed, false, kill, ln, login, ls, mkdir, mknod, more, mount, mv, ps, pwd, rm, rmdir, sed, setserial, sh, stty, su, sync, true, umount, uname Restoration commands tar, gzip, gunzip (link to gzip),zcat (link to gzip Networking commands domainname, hostname, netstat, ping The Cygwin binary tar-balls tend to put most binaries in /bin. That's also OK, I think; that leaves /usr/bin for most other user commands and contributions that would otherwise go to /usr/local/bin. My PATH includes both directories (and /usr/local/bin, and a ~/bin almost in front). Bingo, no duplicates (except in my ~/bin). The whole idea is to be able to ./configure; make; make install with minimal fuss, as if it was just another *nix box. Kind regards Peter Ring Earie Boyd wrote: > You are free to do that yourself. However, I don't want the diskspace wasted > with duplicate sets of binaries. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com