cygwin1.dll incluson in Cygwin makefile

Paul Newell pnewell@cs.cmu.edu
Tue May 27 14:06:00 GMT 2008


Point taken ... a second time (smile)

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 08:50:42PM -0700, Paul Newell wrote:
>   
>> I thought I checked /cygdrive and found them empty (though mount said 
>> otherwise). Given how long it took the "ls /cygdrive" to come back with 
>> something, I guess I might have controlC-ed out. I notice that cmd /c dir 
>> from the "/" gives me what I would expect, but cmd /c dir \cygdrive doesn't 
>> show me the c and f drive, so I just got confused as I wasn't looking the 
>> right way. As in your paragraph about "still missing the point"
>>     
>
> Yep.  Think about it.  I suggested that you NOT to use cmd and you used
> cmd.  I suggested that you not to use \ and you used \.
>
> "dir" is a built-in for cmd.  It is not a Cygwin program and it doesn't
> become aware of Cygwin conventions just because you ran it under bash.
> If you want to look at the files on your C drive the cygwin command
> would be
>
> ls /cygdrive/c
>
> Forget about cmd and forget about \ if you are trying to use Cygwin the way
> it was designed to be used.
>
> cgf
>
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