[ECOS] Help setting up Ecos/Cygwin

[Jonathan Larmour]

Jerry Beckmann wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I have just downloaded all the files for ecos and
> cygwin, and am going through the winnt install
> instructions. I am having a problem when it comes to
> configuring the GNU binary utilities. While I am in
> the cygwin bash shell, I type in the line
> /src/binutils/binutils-000509/configure --whole mess
> of options. And I keep getting the same error of
> "bash: /src/binutils/binutils-000509/configure: No
> such file or directory". I have mounted /tmp to
> e:/cygwin/tmp in text mode and left the other mounted
> points as they were. I have gone through numerous help
> files and can only find that I need to make sure that
> I have mounted my /tmp directory, which I have.

It sounds like /bin is not mounted. Are you using cygwin 1.1? Did you have
an old cygwin installation before that?

For now, the easiest workaround is something of the form:

mount 'c:\cygwin\bin' /bin

Jifl
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