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On Sep 14 15:30, JonY wrote:
> On 9/14/2010 15:29, Charles Wilson wrote:
> >I don't know about Andy, but I sure do -- and I can reproduce his
> >problem.  I suspect there is a "bug" in how the cross tool locates the
> >	/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin
> >directory, given the mount structure:
> >	/usr/bin = /bin
> >	/usr/lib = /lib
> >BUT
> >	/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32 != /x86_64-w64-mingw32
> >
> >because if I do THIS:
> >mount -o bind /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32 /x86_64-w64-mingw32
> >
> >then
> >   /bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -o foo foo.c
> >works, just as if I had invoked
> >   x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -o foo foo.c
> >
> >I say this is a "bug" in quotes, because...well, I'm not sure it fits
> >the definition. It's *our* fault we use a wacky mount structure on cygwin...
> >
> >--
> >Chuck
> >
> 
> So, if /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32 actually exists, it works?
> 
> This looks bad, nonetheless.
> 
> Maybe we can fix cygwin by only redirecting known directories like,
> /usr/bin and /usr/lib to those in /.

Cygwin doesn't redirect any /usr dirs to /.  There are default mount
points for /usr/bin -> /bin and /usr/lib -> lib.  That's all.  The
problematic path is generated in gcc itself.


Corinna

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