Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <006e01c0ece6$cef04560$893a243f@ca.boeing.com> From: "Michael A. Chase" To: "David Starks-Browning" Cc: References: <009101c0eafc$a3409230$7556273f@ca.boeing.com><20010601205630.A6978@redhat.com><001801c0eb03$951d79a0$7556273f@ca.boeing.com> <5583-Mon04Jun2001103301+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Setup 2.57 woes... Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 04:09:10 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 The final comment in that thread from Chris was that the FAQ is still correct. It's just that now that setup.exe honors existing mount points, someone who 'knows what their doing' can split /usr/bin/ and /bin/. If you mention that it is possible, you should also mention that it is strongly not recommended. -- Mac :}) Give a hobbit a fish and he'll eat fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he'll eat fish for an age. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Starks-Browning" To: "Michael A. Chase" Cc: Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 02:33 Subject: Re: Setup 2.57 woes... > On Friday 1 Jun 01, Michael A. Chase writes: > > > >The FAQ describes why /bin/ and /usr/bin/ (and /lib/ and > > > >/usr/lib/) need to point to the same directory. If you insist on > > > >keeping them separate, you are making your installation > > > >unsupportable. > > > > > > Actually setup should honor existing mounts now, fwiw. > > > > Perhaps that section of the FAQ could be re-written now. > > Thanks, I'm aware of the discrepancy, I plan to fix it. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple