Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <011c01c25f38$2efaa260$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> From: "Max Bowsher" To: References: <00b401c25f36$e607f8b0$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> <20020918171706.GA6789@redhat.com> Subject: Re: Invisible link? Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:23:58 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 06:08:33PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: > > John Carlyle- Clarke wrote: > > > Darn -- figured it out about 10 seconds after I hit send. It was of course a > > mount. I unmounted, created an empty /usr/lib and > > > then remounted, and now it shows in the folder listing. Sorry about that. > > > > WARNING! This is inadvisable! Imagine... some Cygwin binary tarballs installing > > stuff into /lib, others into /usr/lib, depending on configuration and how the > > package works. Ditto /bin and /usr/bin. > > Actually, I don't see any harm in it at all as long as the mounts are > set up appropriately so that c:\cygwin\lib == /usr/lib . The existence > of a c:\cygwin\usr\lib directory should really not cause any problems. Oops! Must read more carefully. I missed the 'then remounted' bit. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/