Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <003901c2b068$913ee220$216e883e@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "linda w \(cyg\)" , Cc: "'Greg Matheson'" References: <000401c2b066$8107a5b0$1403a8c0@sc.tlinx.org> Subject: Re: 2 copies of perl includes? Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 01:04:20 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 linda w (cyg) wrote: > Thanks for the datapoint Greg... > > On my system, the copies can be accessed by /usr/lib, as well, since > 'mount', on cygwin, returns (among other things): > > C:\root\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type > system (binmode) > C:\root\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) > C:\root\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) > > --- > Seems like distinctions between bin&usr-bin and lib&usr-lib are a bit > non existant. Yes. > The /usr/lib, /lib difference is a red-herring. > > It's the duplication of content in the 5.6.1 and 5.6.1/cygwin-multi > that I'm finding a bit odd. > > 5.8? Is that available in cygwin-x86? I don't recall it being an > option on recent downloads, but I may have missed it. I do have it > on my gnunix systems though. As a test version. It will show in the click through list, but hasn't yet been promoted to curr, so presumably there are a few buglets left. > I'm also not quite clear on the purpose of the 1st mount as it seems > to mount on top of itself unlike the second 2 mounts. To force binary mode, in case the root mounts are textmode. >>> I was searching for a perl module. "Locate" turned up 2 copies in: >> >>> /lib/perl/5.6.1 and /lib/perl/5.6.1/cygwin-multi You may verify that they are indeed both included in the Cygwin perl package, by looking in /etc/setup/perl.lst.gz. I do not know the reason for the duplication. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/