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re: "stupid newbie questions" - not
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: re: "stupid newbie questions" - not
- From: "Stephen L Arnold" <sarnold at coyote dot rain dot org>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 19:17:45 -0700
- Organization: Huh?
- Reply-to: sarnold at earthling dot net
On 24 Aug 98, Fieldhouse, Dirk had this to say about re: "stupid
newbie questions" - not:
> On 19 Aug 98, Stephen L Arnold had stupid newbie questions:
>
> > What does cygpath.exe do?
>
> It's not part of B19?
It was part of the Coolview package (with the cygwin .dll and a
lib.a file; it's some other guy's update).
> > GCC_EXEC_PREFIX='D:\USR\CYGWIN\H-I386~1\lib\gcc-lib\'
> > GDBTK_LIBRARY=D:/usr/Cygwin/share/gdbtcl
> > CYGFS=D:/usr/Cygwin
> >
> > These others (below) are obviously wrong; where are they
> > set?
> >
> > CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/lib/g++include
> > C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include
> As for the ..._INCLUDE_PATH variables, they appear not to be needed if you
> leave things in the standard places.
I had to install it to my D: parttion, so D:\USR is mounted as root.
These directories (as such) don't exist on my machine; how can they
work? Don't they have to point to the right places? And what are
the right places under the cygwin directory structure?
About the mount command:
Can I just mount directories from any part of any DOS partition
wherever I want?
What about this answer from the FAQ?
How do I set /etc up?
---------------------
If you want a valid /etc set up (so "ls -l" will display correct
user information for example) and if you are running NT (preferably
with an NTFS file system), you should just need to create the /etc
directory on the filesystem mounted as / and then use mkpasswd and
mkgroup to create /etc/passwd and /etc/group respectively. Since
Windows 95's Win32 API is less complete, you're out of luck if
you're running Windows 95!
I kinda took that to mean win95 doesn't have the user/group info,
etc, to make an /etc dir worthless for win95. What is /etc good
for under win95?
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