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Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:56:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Alan Jaynes <alan DOT jaynes AT sri DOT com>
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Subject: Re: /usr/lib and /lib mount question
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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
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