Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:56:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Alan Jaynes cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: /usr/lib and /lib mount question In-Reply-To: <40EED86B.7030307@sri.com> Message-ID: References: <40EED86B DOT 7030307 AT sri DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII; FORMAT=flowed Content-ID: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Alan Jaynes wrote: > hi all- > > after installing gcc with the latest setup.exe i receive this error > message when running gcc: > > $ gcc > gcc: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/specs: No such file or directory > > as such, make becomes completely unusable as do most configure scripts. > > i discovered /lib is mounted on /usr/lib from the faq. ls can see the > file but gcc cannot. i attempted uninstalling and reinstalling without > success. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-05/msg00963.html > seemed in the same vein, but i don't believe this is a missing install > issue. I think you may have hit on the "trailing slash in mount" problem. Try issuing the following commands: mount -s -b "c:/cygwin" "/" mount -s -b "c:/cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin" mount -s -b "c:/cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib" and see if it helps. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT 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/