Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/03/22/14:15:16
Sean Champ wrote:
>
> for cygwin-b20.1 on w98:
>
> i remember reading something about the mounting-system changing between b20.1 and the current snapshots (or something similar to that, hopefully), so maybe this is irrelevant to those
>
> but what exactly could cause "mount" to say that a pathname does not exist, when it looks definitely like it does?
>
> eg:
> == == == ==
>
> % mount -b c:/cygnus/cygwin-b20/h-i586-cygwin32/bin /bin
>
> returns:
>
> "Warning: /bin does not exist!"
>
> ( and
> % cd /bin
> % dir
> shows all o.k.)
>
> == == == ==
>
> also, if i'm mounting /bin like that, will it cause things in ~/i586-cygwin32/bin to be ignored? or are those things a redundancy for someone not currently doing cygwin-builds for multiple platforms?
>
> ( and is i586 any different than what might be built on an AMD K6 ?)
>
> thanks
>
> -- sean
>
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Did you do the cd to, and dir of, /bin _after_ running the mount
command? If so, the association of "/bin" to the directory
"c:/cygnus/cygwin-b20/h-i586-cygwin32/bin" has been made and a cd to
/bin will "translate" to the other.
Try doing a "cd /" and "ls". If "bin" does not show up in the output,
then that is what "mount" is complaining about. I just tried this and
the results follow (directory name is different since I have a /bin
already):
$ ls houdini
ls: houdini: No such file or directory
$ mount -b i:/ $PWD/houdini
Warning: /home/bob/houdini does not exist!
$ ls
Company Info downloads projects
archives inputrc tmp
bin mail tools
broadcasts megami
cygwin stuff mymail
$ cd houdini
/home/bob/houdini
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Bob McGowan
Staff Software Quality Engineer
VERITAS Software
rmcgowan AT veritas DOT com
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