On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Carlo Florendo wrote:
> 3APA3A wrote:
>
> >Dear Carlo Florendo,
> >
> >>d:\cygwin\/bin /usr/bin system binmode
> >>d:\cygwin\/lib /usr/lib system binmode
> >
> >remount /usr/bin and /usr/lib correctly.
>
> Great! First, from cmd prompt, I unmounted everything using:
>
> umount -A
>
> Then, I mounted the root directory using
>
> mount d:\cygwin /
>
> Then, I made /usr/bin a symbolik link to /bin by:
>
> ln -s /bin/ /usr/bin
NO, NO, NO! Don't use symlinks. /usr/bin and /usr/lib are supposed to be
*mounted*. Simply "mount -f d:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin" and "mount -f
d:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib". Otherwise lots of stuff will break when you
least expect it. Just for consistency, you might also want to "mount -f
-b d:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts", although
that's optional since your primary mount is binmode.
> Now, everything works fine now. Gee, why did I have to do that? Isn't
> that supposed to be taken cared of by setup?
I have a feeling you've hit on the "trailing backslash in Cygwin root"
bug. It was discussed on the list about a month ago -- just search the
archives (using Google).
Igor
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