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Re: Installation How-To Draft


On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:05:14AM -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>I am not sure why you need to chmod.  It must be your Windows NT setup
>which alters permissions when files are extracted?

Ditto.  Since the DLLs are loaded by Windows, I don't know why permissions
matter.

Or are they loaded via dlopen()?  I guess that could make a difference.

cgf

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
>> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Olivier
>> Jacquemin
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 7:44 AM
>> To: 'cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com'
>> Subject: RE: Installation How-To Draft
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> The installation how-to document seems seems very good to me (thanks for
>> this), except for one point: IMO the
>> 'chmod o+x,u+x,g+x *.dll'
>> step should be added to the installation steps.  I had to find this
>> information in the mailing list archive (otherwise all applications failed
>> with error code 0xc0000022).  Or even better: isn't it possible to put set
>> the right mode *before* building the tar ball in which they are
>> distributed
>> ? This seems to be the case for dlls distributed with the Cygwin
>> platform...
>> Apart from this, my first installation went fine on my PC (running Win NT
>> 4.0 SP 6).
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> 	_Olivier_
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From:	Harold Hunt [SMTP:Harold@compasstechnologies.com]
>> > Sent:	Monday, September 11, 2000 2:24 AM
>> > To:	Cygx (E-mail)
>> > Subject:	Installation How-To Draft
>> >
>> > Please check out my Installation How-To draft at
>> > http://63.106.166.5/KB/HowTo/CygXFreeInstall.htm
>> >
>> > I think I have permissions setup properly on that machine to
>> allow you all
>> > to read the document; please let me know if you find otherwise.
>> >
>> > Umm... just so everyone knows, that machine is owned by my
>> employer, whom
>> > has nothing to do with X, so please mirror the document if you
>> would like
>> > to
>> > point others to it.
>> >
>> > Let me know any of your tips and suggestions.  I hope you like it,

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