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Re: Invisible link?
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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.
Oops! Must read more carefully. I missed the 'then remounted' bit.
Max.
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