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 Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:38:07 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Strange make [Error 255] (cygwin bug?) Message-ID: <20030926083807.GD22787@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <006601c38335$a62e8dc0$8006fea9@bertigep> <20030925125239.GH10088@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20030925134036.GC20477@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20030925134745.GC14708@redhat.com> <87r824uhkz.fsf@peder.flower> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87r824uhkz.fsf@peder.flower> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 09:36:28AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Christopher Faylor writes: > > > In any event, this might help: > > > > mount -f -X c:/cygwin/bin /bin > > mount -f -x c:/cygwin/bin/strace.exe /bin/strace.exe > > mount -f -x c:/cygwin/bin/cygcheck.exe /bin/cygcheck.exe > > Why can this not be the default, are there any other executables that > need to mounted '-x'? mount -X is a bit of a workaround. While it speeds up starting apps from that directory, it disallows correct argument passing for non-Cygwin applications in the same directory. Therefore the two additional mount -x for strace and cygcheck, bot mingw apps. I don't think that's a good idea to default /bin to -X. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/