From: lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall) Subject: Re: co-existance on cygwin32 and uwin 11 Nov 1997 07:37:24 -0800 Message-ID: <2.2.32.19971111143435.0099a9e8.cygnus.gnu-win32@ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: kh AT wg DOT icl DOT co DOT uk (Kevin Hughes), gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com At 04:34 PM 11/10/97 GMT, Kevin Hughes wrote: >I have been using cygwin32 for a few weeks now and am making progress slowly. I >wished to try the uwin system and installed it. > >Both systems work - both have plus and minus points. One thing is causing me a >problem - once uwin was installed my gnu system stopped working until I changed the uwin /usr directory name. What appears to happen is that gcc picks up the >/usr/include/x.? files. I dont understand why. I dont have this in any env. >variable or in any spec file. I think it only finds the uwin include if it cant >find one in the cygwin tree. > >Any ideas what is going on? > > > >Kevin The traditional UNIX world uses certain hard-coded, default directories. /usr/include is one. If you have it and it is on the drive cygwin32 mounts as "/", gcc will use it, regardless of what is there. The solution you arrived at to avoid the co-existence problem is reasonable and workable in this context. Larry - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".