From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22010 invoked by alias); 2 Sep 2003 20:14:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 21939 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2003 20:14:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web14409.mail.yahoo.com) (216.136.173.220) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Sep 2003 20:14:43 -0000 Message-ID: <20030902201438.51382.qmail@web14409.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [4.64.44.155] by web14409.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 02 Sep 2003 13:14:38 PDT Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 20:14:00 -0000 From: Gerry Reno Subject: Re: strings failing To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: grenoml@yahoo.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00159.txt.bz2 Igor, Of course. I just started a new shell and things seem to be working correctly now. I must have changed some define that got things confused. thx, Gerry Reno --- Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Gerry Reno wrote: > > > Has anyone seen behavior like this: > > > > On Cygwin 1.3.18 I am seeing strange failures with trying to use > > strings. Strings does not seem able to see some files yet 'ls' > shows > > them, 'od -cx' shows them. Also gcc has similar problem in that it > is > > reporting: no such file or directory on some compiles. > > > > $strings /lib/libc.a > > d:\mingw\bin\strings.exe: /lib/libc.a: No such file or directory > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > (This happens for any file in /lib) > > > > Any ideas what may be causing strings to fail? > > thx, > > Gerry Reno > > You mean, aside from the fact that you aren't using Cygwin's > "strings"? > MinGW programs aren't aware of Cygwin mounts. I suspect you're using > MinGW gcc as well. > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his > route > to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/