From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: RE: b19 configure problems AND mkid/lid problem
4 Mar 1998 14:15:07 -0800
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To: ron AT mossbayeng DOT com
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com



>From: "Ron Aaron" <ron AT mossbayeng DOT com>
>To: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com>
>Subject: RE: b19 configure problems AND mkid/lid problem
>Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 08:11:35 -0800
>
>Earnie,
>
>THANK YOU!!!!!

Your welcome.

>
>It seemed to work.  I don't have B19 on my C: drive, but on D: so I 
couldn't
>do the umount first... now the question is ... will this work outside 
of
>bash?

As long as the programs are cygwin.dll dependent then it should work in 
any shell.

>
>Thanks again,
>Ron
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 1998 7:50 AM
>> To: ron AT mossbayeng DOT com
>> Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
>> Subject: RE: b19 configure problems AND mkid/lid problem
>>
>>
>> I don't find that this was answered in the archives.  Actually I 
can't
>> even find it in the archives.
>>
>> The reason that your having problems has to do with physical versus
>> logical devices relative to absolute versus soft paths.  The logical
>> directory / is physically c:\, the logical directory /d is physically
>> d:\.  If you "cd /" then you are in effect doing chdir to c:\.  If 
you
>> try to "cd d" it can't resolve the soft path because "d" doesn't
>> physically exist on c:\.  If you do "cd /d" however it works because
>> "/d" is mapped to d:\.
>>
>> A workaround for this might be (don't know if this works, just 
thought
>> of it):
>>
>> umount /d
>> cd /
>> ln -s d:\\ d
>>
>>
>> If the above doesn't work then you will need to modify the code to
>> include the beginning / so that it can be resolved correctly.
>>
>> -        \\||//
>> ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o----
>> -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com-
>> ------ooo0O--O0ooo-------
>>
>>
>> >From: "Ron Aaron" <ron AT mossbayeng DOT com>
>> >To: "Geoffrey Noer" <noer AT cygnus DOT com>, <vischne AT ibm DOT net>
>> >Cc: <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
>> >Subject: RE: b19 configure problems AND mkid/lid problem
>> >Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 12:43:42 -0800
>> >
>> >I copied b19...sh.exe into my C:\BIN, and now everything works... as
>> far as
>> >compile, etc, Thanks!
>> >
>> >I got mkid and lid to compile just fine now; (gnu id-utils3.2).
>> However,
>> >when I try (from my bash shell)
>> >	./mkid *.c
>> >
>> >in the directory where the id-utils src files are, I get:
>> >	./mkid: can't lstat `d' from `/'
>> >	./mkid: can't chdir to `d' from `/': No such file or directory
>> >	./mkid: can't chdir to `d/id-utils-3.2' from `/': No such file or
>> directory
>> >	./mkid: can't chdir to `d/id-utils-3.2/src' from `/': No
>> such file or
>> >directory
>> >	./mkid: can't lstat `fid.c' from `/'
>> >	./mkid: can't lstat `fnid.c' from `/'
>> >	./mkid: can't lstat `lid.c' from `/'
>> >	./mkid: can't lstat `mkid.c' from `/'
>> >	./mkid: can't lstat `xtokid.c' from `/'
>> >	./mkid: can't lstat `2' from `/'
>> >	./mkid: nothing to do
>> >
>> >
>> >Tracing through the mkid code, they get the current-dir from 
getcwd()
>> which
>> >returns "/d/id-utils/3.2/src/", then they try to chdir() in pieces
>> there.
>> >This doesn't appear to work at all.
>> >
>> >Any clues!! Please!  I would *like* to be able to use these tools
>> outside of
>> >a bash environment, too (on NT).
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >Ron
>> >
>> >-
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