/usr/bin exists not; man can't find nroff; permissions inconsistent

[Carlo Florendo y Flora]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

>On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Carlo Florendo wrote:
>
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>
>>3APA3A wrote:
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>>>Dear Carlo Florendo,
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>d:\cygwin\/bin                     /usr/bin                  system  binmode
>>>>d:\cygwin\/lib                     /usr/lib                  system  binmode
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>remount /usr/bin and /usr/lib correctly.
>>>      
>>>
>>Great!  First, from cmd prompt, I unmounted everything using:
>>
>>umount -A
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>>Then, I mounted the root directory using
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>>mount d:\cygwin  /
>>
>>Then, I made /usr/bin a symbolik link to /bin by:
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>>ln -s /bin/ /usr/bin
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>
>NO, NO, NO!  Don't use symlinks.  /usr/bin and /usr/lib are supposed to be
>*mounted*.  Simply "mount -f d:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin" and "mount -f
>d:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib".  Otherwise lots of stuff will break when you
>least expect it.  Just for consistency, you might also want to "mount -f
>-b d:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts", although
>that's optional since your primary mount is binmode.
>
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>
Oh Igor!  Thanks for the pointers.  I guess I have to read more about 
cygwin mounts.

>>Now, everything works fine now.  Gee, why did I have to do that?  Isn't
>>that supposed to be taken cared of by setup?
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>
>I have a feeling you've hit on the "trailing backslash in Cygwin root"
>bug.  It was discussed on the list about a month ago -- just search the
>archives (using Google).
>	Igor
>  
>

Ok.  I'll do that!

Thanks!

Best Regards,

Carlo Florendo y Flora
Astra Philippines Inc.
www.astra.ph







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