Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 06:08:33PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: > > John Carlyle- Clarke wrote: > > > Darn -- figured it out about 10 seconds after I hit send. It was of course a > > mount. I unmounted, created an empty /usr/lib and > > > then remounted, and now it shows in the folder listing. Sorry about that. > > > > WARNING! This is inadvisable! Imagine... some Cygwin binary tarballs installing > > stuff into /lib, others into /usr/lib, depending on configuration and how the > > package works. Ditto /bin and /usr/bin. > > Actually, I don't see any harm in it at all as long as the mounts are > set up appropriately so that c:\cygwin\lib == /usr/lib . The existence > of a c:\cygwin\usr\lib directory should really not cause any problems.
Oops! Must read more carefully. I missed the 'then remounted' bit. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/