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Jiri Engelthaler wrote:
> 2012/9/23 marco atzeri <marco DOT atzeri AT gmail DOT com>:
>
> 
> And if I'm looking a way how to avoid this ...buggy feature..., my
> answer is yes. If someone can help me with how to run gcc compiler
> (see first post) which looks in ../libexec/...... for cc1.exe, I'll be
> happy. My question is still same: How to access ../libexec directory
> from bin directory.
> 
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Since /usr/bin doesn't exist outside of cygwin, you are free to put a
softlinke (in cmd.exe, cd \usr, mklink /d bin ..\bin;

Then whether you are in windows or in cygwin , you 'll see /usr/bin pointing
to the same content as /bin.

Same for any other dual mapped dirs...

Would that work for you?


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