Re: /usr/lib and /lib mount question

[Alan Jaynes <alan dot jaynes at sri dot com>]

igor-

you're beautiful.  : )   it said the mount device was busy, so i forced 
it and now it works like a charm.  thanks!

alan

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Alan Jaynes wrote:
>
> > hi all-
> >
> > after installing gcc with the latest setup.exe i receive this error
> > message when running gcc:
> >
> > $ gcc
> > gcc: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/specs: No such file or 
> > directory
> >
> > as such, make becomes completely unusable as do most configure scripts.
> >
> > i discovered /lib is mounted on /usr/lib from the faq.  ls can see the
> > file but gcc cannot.  i attempted uninstalling and reinstalling without
> > success.  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-05/msg00963.html
> > seemed in the same vein, but i don't believe this is a missing install
> > issue.
>
>
> I think you may have hit on the "trailing slash in mount" problem.  Try
> issuing the following commands:
>
> mount -s -b "c:/cygwin" "/"
> mount -s -b "c:/cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin"
> mount -s -b "c:/cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib"
>
> and see if it helps.
>     Igor

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