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Re: PostGreSQL on NT 4.0

From
Jason Tishler
Date:
Tom,

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 06:57:07PM -0800, TJHart@thoughtworks.COM wrote:
> FYI... in case you get any other bone-head developers asking....
> My problem was that I assumed that /bin and /usr/bin were the same ( i.e.,
> one was a symlink for the other ). For some reason, I have a cygwin/bin and
> a cygwin/usr/bin that are different directories.

The above implies that your Cygwin installation is not correct.  Due to
the default mounts (via setup.exe), /bin and /usr/bin should resolve
to the same directory.  Try re-running setup.exe to fix your mounts.
If that does not work than try using mount/umount directly.  Your mounts
should look something like:

    $ mount
    Device              Directory           Type         Flags
    C:\Cygwin\bin       /usr/bin            system       binmode
    C:\Cygwin\lib       /usr/lib            system       binmode
    C:\Cygwin           /                   system       binmode
    ...

As a last resort, there is always regedit/regedt32.  The keys to whack are
under:

    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2

or:

    HKCU\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2

Jason

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Re: PostGreSQL on NT 4.0

From
Fred Yankowski
Date:
Only use 'tar' to unpack Cygwin packages, not 'winzip', because the
latter doesn't understand Cygwin's mount points and can (mistakenly)
create the separate /bin and /usr/bin directories.  Been there, done that.

> On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 06:57:07PM -0800, TJHart@thoughtworks.COM wrote:
> > FYI... in case you get any other bone-head developers asking....
> > My problem was that I assumed that /bin and /usr/bin were the same ( i.e.,
> > one was a symlink for the other ). For some reason, I have a cygwin/bin and
> > a cygwin/usr/bin that are different directories.

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