From: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: HELP ME FOR autoconf-2.12 under cygwin32 11 Jul 1998 02:51:37 -0700 Message-ID: <19980710133051.13999.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1a.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: dominique.cretel@cfwb.be Cc: Michael Hirmke , gnu-win32@cygnus.com ---CRETEL Dominique wrote: > > Hello Earnie, > > Earnie Boyd wrote: > > > bash > > > $ mkdir /bin > > > > This mkdir isn't necessary. It's not unix folks, we're only > > pretending to be. As a matter of fact, this can cause cygwin to > > become confused as to which directory /bin is supposed to be. > > > > > $ mount [-b] d:/Cygnus/B19/H-i386-cygwin32/bin /bin > > > > This is what will take care of the problem. > > Well, if I understand what you mean, I have to mount the > d:/Cygnus/B19/H-i386-cygwin32/bin directory to /bin. > > How to do this if /bin doesn't exists? > So, I have to create it by doing a mkdir -p /bin! No, the /bin doesn't physically have to exist. You are creating a logical path that points to the physical path and is stored in the registry. It is somewhat akin to symbolic links. == - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- --earnie_boyd@yahoo.com-- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".