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RE: bash: tar: command not found


On 12 April 2007 17:49, Jeff Hawk wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Thorsten Kampe
>> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 11:03 AM

>> \cygwin\usr\bin and \cygwin\usr\lib are /real/ directories created by
>> the initial Cygwin installation routine. He shouldn't delete those
>> directories - just keep them empty...
> 
> Not true...
> 
> I have Cygwin installed and there is NO c:\cygwin\usr\bin directory
> 
> As has been mentioned before, /usr/bin is a *mount* point, not a real
> directory. 
> 
> 0> mount
> C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)   <<<<<<<<<<<
> C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
> C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
> 
> Like that ^^^^^^^^^^^

  Yeh, but it helps to create a real directory to back up a mountpoint,
because that avoids a warning message.  And setup.exe is /supposed/ to create
them:  see do_install_thread in install.cc:

  for (i = 0; Installer::StandardDirs[i]; i++)
  {
    std::string p = cygpath (Installer::StandardDirs[i]);
    if (p.size())
      io_stream::mkpath_p (PATH_TO_DIR, "file://" + p);
  }

const char *
Installer::StandardDirs[] = {
  "/bin",
  "/etc",
  "/lib",
  "/tmp",
  "/usr",
  "/usr/bin",
  "/usr/lib",
  "/usr/src",
  "/usr/local",
  "/usr/local/bin",
  "/usr/local/etc",
  "/usr/local/lib",
  "/usr/tmp",
  "/var/run",
  "/var/tmp",
  0
};

    cheers,
      DaveK
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