On Jun 12 10:30, Georg Blaschke wrote: > Hi, > > When installing cygwin (1.7) on a Windows XP machine without > administrator rights the root directory is ignored when > extracting the cygwin packages. > All packages are extracted to C:\cygwin instead.
I found the bug. The basic problem was that a loop was left prematurely when not being able to create/read the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygwin. The next run of the loop was supposed to read the same key under HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Due to the bug it never did and, after having installed the basic directories in the new directory, the root directory got reset to the 1.5 cygwin dir (or just the default "C:\cygwin") accidentally because the function containing the loop was called again. Superfluously, I might add. I'll upload a new version of setup-1.7.exe later today. Thanks for the report, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
