From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: HELP ME FOR autoconf-2.12 under cygwin32
11 Jul 1998 02:51:37 -0700
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To: dominique DOT cretel AT cfwb DOT be
Cc: Michael Hirmke <mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

---CRETEL Dominique <dominique DOT cretel AT cfwb DOT be> wrote:
>
> Hello Earnie,
> 
> Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > > bash
> > > $ mkdir /bin
> > 
> > This mkdir isn't necessary.  It's not unix folks, we're only
> > pretending to be.  As a matter of fact, this can cause cygwin to
> > become confused as to which directory /bin is supposed to be.
> > 
> > > $ mount [-b] d:/Cygnus/B19/H-i386-cygwin32/bin /bin
> > 
> > This is what will take care of the problem.
> 
> Well, if I understand what you mean, I have to mount the
> d:/Cygnus/B19/H-i386-cygwin32/bin directory to /bin.
> 
> How to do this if /bin doesn't exists?
> So, I have to create it by doing a mkdir -p /bin!

No, the /bin doesn't physically have to exist.  You are creating a
logical path that points to the physical path and is stored in the
registry.  It is somewhat akin to symbolic links.

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