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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 15:52:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Gerry Reno cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: strings failing In-Reply-To: <20030902183124.37416.qmail@web14408.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20030902183124.37416.qmail@web14408.mail.yahoo.com> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Gerry Reno wrote: > Has anyone seen behavior like this: > > On Cygwin 1.3.18 I am seeing strange failures with trying to use > strings. Strings does not seem able to see some files yet 'ls' shows > them, 'od -cx' shows them. Also gcc has similar problem in that it is > reporting: no such file or directory on some compiles. > > $strings /lib/libc.a > d:\mingw\bin\strings.exe: /lib/libc.a: No such file or directory ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > (This happens for any file in /lib) > > Any ideas what may be causing strings to fail? > thx, > Gerry Reno You mean, aside from the fact that you aren't using Cygwin's "strings"? MinGW programs aren't aware of Cygwin mounts. I suspect you're using MinGW gcc as well. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/