Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/03/22/15:03:54
> i586-cygwin32 is a
> target directory for platform specific things
thank you.
is there any "i586-cygwin32" in the default "user.exe" installation?
-- sean
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
To: "Sean Champ" <symmetry_web AT email DOT msn DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: "mount"
> At 12:39 PM 3/22/00, you 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.)
> >
>
>
> If /bin did not exist before the mount command you will get this message.
>
>
> >== == == ==
> >
> >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?
>
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by the first question. i586-cygwin32 is a
> target directory for platform specific things. It has more meaning in
> the Cygnus build environment than outside of it. You don't need to be
> concerned about it.
>
> >( and is i586 any different than what might be built on an AMD K6 ?)
>
> No. i586 is an indication of a "PC" platform that is Intel compatible.
> Its not an indication of chip specific code (i.e. code in i586 directories
> will run equally well on a 486, 586, 686, K6, etc.)
>
>
> Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com
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