RE: ./config -luser32 error, but libuser32.a is in the usr/lib/w32api directory

[Ross Smith <rosss at pharos dot co dot nz>]

> From: Dan Browning [mailto:dbml@kavod.com]
> 
> At 08:56 PM 3/20/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >At 08:52 PM 3/20/2002, Dan Browning wrote:
> > >
> > >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?
> 
> <I'll try to remember to do reply all instead of reply next time>
> 
> $ ls -l /usr/lib/w32api
> ls: /usr/lib/w32api: No such file or directory
> 
> Perhaps it has something to do with the /usr/lib -> /lib 
> mounting?  http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC61

It looks as though the w32api directory has been put under the real
/usr/lib (== c:\cygwin\usr\lib) instead of under the mounted
directory (/usr/lib == c:\cygwin\lib) (which is where it is on my
system). When the mount point is set up, this renders invisible
anything actually existing under the mount-point directory.

Whether this would have been caused by a setup bug or pilot error
I couldn't guess.

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