I want to wrap this up by first stating that I now understand why you think /usr/share exists and why I stated it does not and to perhaps help some other confused person looking at just the archive files. I extracted the archives and found PREFIX/usr and PREFIX/etc. Since the bin directory existed in PREFIX/usr I simply moved PREFIX/etc to PREFIX/usr/etc. Everything worked fine except that /usr/share wasn't found but /share was found. Using the setup process PREFIX/usr/bin and PREFIX/usr/lib are moved to PREFIX/ so that now when you start Cygwin /usr/share exists but /share doesn't.
Now in my hand created self-extracted version I just move the two directories and everything works as expected. But I'm left wondering why the tar files are create with usr/bin/ and usr/lib/ instead of bin/ and lib/. I'm not asking for an explanation of that so please don't belabor the subject further. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple