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Re: HELP ME FOR autoconf-2.12 under cygwin32
- To: dominique dot cretel at cfwb dot be
- Subject: Re: HELP ME FOR autoconf-2.12 under cygwin32
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 06:30:51 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: Michael Hirmke <mh at mike dot franken dot de>, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
---CRETEL Dominique <dominique.cretel@cfwb.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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