On Jan 8, 2008, at 3:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I run the installer and start up Git Bash I have an empty
directory under /mingw.
I do have mingw installed in the default location C:\MinGW.
I am running Vista32.
The -rc2 installer does not give me the mount command that I have with
the netinstall.
So I try this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ # ln c:/MinGW mingw
ln: `c:/MinGW': hard link not allowed for directory
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ # ln -s c:/MinGW mingw
ln: creating symbolic link `mingw' to `c:/MinGW': No such file or
directory
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ # cd mingw/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mingw # l
bin/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mingw # cd bin/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mingw/bin # l
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mingw/bin #
So I can delete the mingw directory and create a symbolic link with ln
-s, but:
- That fails with "ln: creating symbolic link `mingw' to `c:/MinGW':
No such file or directory".
- But it still creates a new mingw directory.
- which contains an empty "bin" directory (very strange)???
- and does not show the contents of my C:\MinGW.
Now I admit I am a newbie, but I am truely lost at explaining to
myself how that can be happening.
Could someone please shed some insight on this? I searched through the
group but didn't come up with a match, so a pointer to a previous post
would be good enough unless this is really a bug.
We do not have the goal of delivering a full MinGW installation.
We only install git. We need some MinGW programs and deliver only
the programs we need. This set of programs may be further cut in
the future. Eventually maybe we install only a single executable,
git.exe. But this is a long way to go.
So the only question that matters is if git works in the Git Bash,
not if you have a mount command or not.
Steffen
