At 08:52 PM 3/20/2002, Dan Browning wrote: >At 05:36 PM 3/20/2002 -0800, you wrote: >>At 07:27 PM 3/20/2002, Luke J Crook wrote: >> >Thanks for the help guys, I read the the FAQ and have since uninstalled >> >Ruby, and deleted everythin in the the c:\Cygwin directory. I decided to >> >start from scratch. >> > >> >However, even after re-installing Cygwin, I still have the same problem as I >> >described previously... ld can't find -luser32. Could this be a possible bug >> >in the installer? >> > >> >The only way I can fix this is by copying the contents of /usr/lib/w32api >> >into /lib and /usr/lib. >> > >> >-Luke >> >>Ditto. >> >>################################################# >>## Steps to reproduce: >>################################################# >> >>* Remove old cygwin ("del /s /q c:\cygwin") >> >>* Install "All" using the new cygwin installer >> >>################################################# >>## Symptoms >>################################################# >> >>* luser32 is nowhere to be found. (unlike Luke, I do not have a "/usr/lib/w32api" >directory). > >Correction: > >The "c:\cygwin\usr\lib\w32api" DOES actually exist in windows, but I could not access >that directory within the cygwin shell: > >$ cd /usr/lib/w32api >bash: cd: /usr/lib/w32api: No such file or directory > >However, if I copy "c:\cygwin\usr\lib\w32api" to c:\cygwin\lib, then everything works >(like what Luke said). > >So what I think we're dealing with here is, "why can't cygwin see the >c:\cygwin\usr\lib\w32api directory"?
Sounds like a permissions problem to me. What does ls -l /usr/lib/w32api show? Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- 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/