From: kevq-ml AT banana DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Kevin F. Quinn)
Subject: RE: LIBRARY_PATH problems
19 May 1998 13:46:31 -0700
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To: "Kris Thielemans" <kris AT wren DOT rpms DOT ac DOT uk>
Cc: "Gnuwin" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

Kris Thielemans wrote:

> New tests:
> 3)
> - I make a directory /ll, and put libX11.a in there
> - I make sure there is no ll directory on any other drive, certainly not on
> d: - I set LIBRARY_PATH=//d/ll (or /home/ll) - gcc -v -lX11 does find the
> X11 library, and the -v option tells you it found it in /ll (=c:\ll)
> 
> 4)
> - I remove the c:\ll, and make a d:\ll, put libX11.a
> - keep LIBRARY_PATH=//d/ll
> - gcc -lX11 does not find the library

Would mounting D:\ onto /d (say) solve the problem?  Then you wouldn't have 
to use any drive specifications, which are presumably (I'm guessing, 
from what Earnie said earlier) causing inode conflicts and hence all sorts 
of weird side-effects.

Kev.

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