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Re: Invisible link?
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
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