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Subject: Re: flex: exec failed? (root install/mount)
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On Jul 16 19:33, Jay wrote:
> 
> configure:10596: /obj/gcc.5/i686-pc-cygwin/i686-pc-cygwin/build-i686-pc-cygwin/flex/flex conftest.l
> strace: error creating process D:\\obj/gcc.5/i686-pc-cygwin/i686-pc-cygwin/build-i686-pc-cygwin/flex/flex, (error 3)
> 
> which indicates the problem is:
> 
> $ mount
> d:\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
> d:\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
> d: on / type system (binmode)
> c: on /cygdrive/c type system (binmode,noumount)
> 
> 
> d: is being interpeted, as it is on Win32, as the current directory on drive d, and not, as intended here, as the root of d.

This is never the case in Cygwin.  The above error message occurs in
strace, which is not a Cygwin application, but a native Win32
application.


Corinna

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