RE: setup/symlinks/gcc/chown question

["Karl M" <karlm30 at hotmail dot com>]

Hi All...

A chown -h causes the same problem as a chown -R. So, the second script does 
not work around the problem...it does avoid damaging the link, but after the 
install, the ownership on the links are administrator.none and so I can run 
gcc -mno-cygwin... as a restricted user. So for now I have deleted and 
recreated the links by hand.

Thanks,

...Karl

> From: "Karl M" Subject: setup/symlinks/gcc/chown question
> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 09:56:18 -0800
>
> Hi All...
>
> I just installed gcc/mingw with setup.
>
> If I do
>
> cd /lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/3.4.4
> chown -R administrators.none *
>
> it breaks the symlinks in the directory. If I do
>
> chown administrators.none *
>
> from a clean install, the symlinks are fine. If I recreate the symlinks by 
> hand, then both forms of the chown command work fine. That is chown -R 
> breaks the symlinks created during the install. If I reinstall gcc/mingw, I 
> can repeat the process. A cygcheck output is attached.
>
> This comes from a script that I run after running setup to fix up my mounts 
> and permissions. Is there a better way to do this fixup? Two copies of the 
> script are attached; the first with the chown -R that now breaks the 
> symlinks and a temporary one that uses find to to avoid the chown -R, but 
> the second is really slow.
>
> Thanks,
>
> ...Karl


> << cygcheck.out >>


> << cygwin-host-config >>


> << cygwin-host-config-fix >>


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