Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/07/18/17:12:41
/cygdrive is needed. Check out the user guide for details:
http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#MOUNT
The rest are peculiar to your system. If you don't want them, get
rid of them. If they're needed by something else you use, you'll know
soon enough! ;-)
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At 04:59 PM 7/18/2001, Cheuk Cheng wrote:
>Thanks. What is /usr/local/bin pointing to? How about /usr/local,
>/usr/cygnus and /cygdrive? I am confused about what are they used for and
>what should they point to? Are they needed in general or only for specific
>tools?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Peter Buckley [mailto:peter DOT buckley AT cportcorp DOT com]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 1:24 PM
>To: 'Cheuk Cheng'; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>Subject: RE: mounts in gnupro99r1p1
>
>
>Cygwin tools would be located in c:\cygwin\bin,
>if you install in the default location.
>Cygwin prepends
>
>/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin
>
>to your path, and the mounts
>would be-
>
>c:\cygwin\bin to /usr/bin
>c:\cygwin to /
>c:\cygwin\usr\sbin to /usr/sbin
>
>If you set your path system or user variable,
>you can use cygwin/gnupro from other shells
>than the bash shell. I have in my system PATH
>variable on NT-
>
>%the typical path%;C:\cygwin\bin
>
>so I can use cygwin from emacs and dos without
>opening a bash shell.
>You can enter whatever location your gnupro
>tools are, and your cygwin tools, without
>worrying about mount.
>
>HTH,
>Peter
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Cheuk Cheng [mailto:cheng AT powertv DOT com]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 4:16 PM
>To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>Subject: mounts in gnupro99r1p1
>
>
>I am new to GNU and am confused about how to set up device mounts in
>general. I use the following with the Cygwin I recently get from the web.
>I also have gnupro99r1p1 installed under d:\cygnus\gnupro99-r1p1. When I
>run the default gnupro.bat file created by the gnupro99r1p1 installer, it
>just opens a DOS window within Win2k. Since the installer put certain
>command line tools like ls.exe, bash.exe, etc. under
>d:\cygnus\unsupported-99r1\H-i686-cygwin32\bin while other programs like
>gcc.exe are placed into d:\cygnus\gnupro-99r1p1\H-i686-cygwin32\bin. As a
>result, entering ls after running bash.exe does not work. My questions are
>what mounts/paths does Cygwin used to locate a tool? Do I always need to
>mount /, /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /usr/local and /usr/cygnus? What should they
>normally be set to (especially gnupro99r1p1 has two different directories
>for storing the tools)?
>
>d:\cygnus\latest\bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode)
>d:\cygnus\latest\lib on /usr/lib type user (binmode)
>d:\cygnus\latest on / type user (binmode)
>d:\cygnus\latest on /usr/local type user (textmode)
>d:\cygnus\latest on /usr/cygnus type user (binmode)
>c:\temps on /tmp type user (textmode)
>c: on /c type user (textmode)
>d: on /d type user (textmode)
>e: on /e type user (textmode)
>g: on /g type user (textmode)
>k: on /cygdrive/k type user (binmode,noumount)
>m: on /cygdrive/m type user (binmode,noumount)
>n: on /cygdrive/n type user (binmode,noumount)
>u: on /cygdrive/u type user (binmode,noumount)
>
>
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