Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/03/20/21:39:19
At 09:31 PM 3/20/2002 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 06:23:35PM -0800, Dan Browning wrote:
> >At 06:09 PM 3/20/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> >>At 08:56 PM 3/20/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >>>At 08:52 PM 3/20/2002, Dan Browning wrote:
> >>>>At 05:36 PM 3/20/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> >>>>>At 07:27 PM 3/20/2002, Luke J Crook wrote:
> >>>>> >Thanks for the help guys, I read the the FAQ and have since
> >>>uninstalled
> >>>>> >Ruby, and deleted everythin in the the c:\Cygwin directory. I decided
> >>>to
> >>>>> >start from scratch.
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> >However, even after re-installing Cygwin, I still have the same
> >>>problem as I
> >>>>> >described previously... ld can't find -luser32. Could this be a
> >>>possible bug
> >>>>> >in the installer?
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> >The only way I can fix this is by copying the contents of
> >>>/usr/lib/w32api
> >>>>> >into /lib and /usr/lib.
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> >-Luke
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Ditto.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>#################################################
> >>>>>## Steps to reproduce:
> >>>>>#################################################
> >>>>>
> >>>>>* Remove old cygwin ("del /s /q c:\cygwin")
> >>>>>
> >>>>>* Install "All" using the new cygwin installer
> >>>>>
> >>>>>#################################################
> >>>>>## Symptoms
> >>>>>#################################################
> >>>>>
> >>>>>* luser32 is nowhere to be found. (unlike Luke, I do not have a
> >>>"/usr/lib/w32api" directory).
> >>>>
> >>>>Correction:
> >>>>
> >>>>The "c:\cygwin\usr\lib\w32api" DOES actually exist in windows, but I
> >>>could not access that directory within the cygwin shell:
> >>>>
> >>>>$ cd /usr/lib/w32api
> >>>>bash: cd: /usr/lib/w32api: No such file or directory
> >>>>
> >>>>However, if I copy "c:\cygwin\usr\lib\w32api" to c:\cygwin\lib, then
> >>>everything works (like what Luke said).
> >>>>
> >>>>So what I think we're dealing with here is, "why can't cygwin see the
> >>>c:\cygwin\usr\lib\w32api directory"?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Sounds like a permissions problem to me. What does ls -l /usr/lib/w32api
> >>>show?
> >>
> >><I'll try to remember to do reply all instead of reply next time>
> >>
> >>$ ls -l /usr/lib/w32api
> >>ls: /usr/lib/w32api: No such file or directory
> >>
> >>Perhaps it has something to do with the /usr/lib -> /lib
> >>mounting? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC61
> >
> ># It exists if I use the /cgydrive... method:
> >
> >$ ll /cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/lib/w32api
> >total 5704
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 dpbrowni None 408608 Dec 7 06:51 libadvapi32.a
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 dpbrowni None 4254 Dec 7 06:51 libcap.a
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 dpbrowni None 94488 Dec 7 06:51 libcomctl32.a
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 dpbrowni None 19752 Dec 7 06:51 libcomdlg32.a
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 dpbrowni None 20062 Dec 7 06:51 libctl3d32.a
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 dpbrowni None 5122 Dec 7 06:51 libd3dim.a
> >[...]
> >
> ># But not regular ls:
> >
> >$ ls /usr/lib/w32api
> >ls: /usr/lib/w32api: No such file or directory
>
>So, this does sound like a setup.exe problem after all. Looks like I
>was wrong.
>
>Somehow setup.exe is bypassing the mount table and putting stuff
>directly in c:/cygwin/usr/lib/w32api rather than in c:/lib/w32api.
>
>So, the *correct* solution is to
>
>mv /cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/lib/w32api /cygdrive/c/cygwin/lib
>
>Robert, I hope you're reading this.
>
>cgf
Thanks! Sorry if I was a bit curt on that last one. Now I'm off to figure
out why I get "Had to create DBI::_dbistate unexpectedly" errors in perl DBI.
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