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. cgf -- 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/
