Building a common cygwin enviroment for network distribution

[Carl Perry <cperry at ticom-geo dot com>]

Greetings!  First off, thanks to all for Cygwin - this is a great system 
that saves us massive amounts of time.  I'm currently preparing to 
deploy Cygwin to replace some commercial tools on our network.  I have 
everything working the way I want on my machine, and would like to 
"capture" this configuration for deployment.  I've built an NSIS 
installer taht copies all the files and creates all the necessary icons 
- however things are not functioning as expected.  For example, 
launching xterm.exe spawns an empty DOS box before the xterm comes up 
and the DOS box doesn't go away until the xterm is closed.  Also, most 
of the binaries don't work unless you specify an absolute path.

I'm sure this problem has been encoutered before - and if I'm lucky 
solved.  If there is an existing way to do this, I would appreciate any 
information.  If there is not an exisiting way, I'll be happy to share 
my NSIS scripts with the community.  I've looked around the Cygwin site 
for information on installation that doesn't use the supplied setup.exe, 
and I've found a lot of "you on your own" so I'm hoping to get some help 
here.  Thanks!

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   -Carl Perry       TICOM Geomatics, Inc.
   cperry@ticom-geo.com  512/345-5006x428


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