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Date:	Wed, 3 Apr 2002 09:34:40 -0800 (PST)
From:	ganglu <ganglu AT usc DOT edu>
To:	"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
cc:	<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: No such host or network path
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Thanks.

I am wondering if cygwin can be setted to be able to access other
directory using
"//C" instead of "/C".
so I send to this mail list.

thanks any way.

Gang Lu

On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:

> At 08:38 PM 4/2/2002, Gang Lu wrote:
>
> >I installed the cygwin under c:\cygwin.
> >And a Repository is installed at c:\Repository.
> >
> >An application generate Makefile automatically:
> >
> >export REPOSITORY := /C/Repository/packages
> >
> >then the make always report:
> >
> >makefile:71: //C/Repository/packages/pkgconf/rules.mak: No such host or
> >network path
> >
> >If I change "//C" to "/C", then it works.
> >
> >But there are so many such makefiles, I can not change them every time by
> >hand.
> >
> >So what would be the reason for such a problem?
>
>
>
> Yes.  It's apparently a problem with your makefiles.  Looks like you're going
> to need to figure out a way to fix the makefiles or tweak your application
> that generates the makefile to remove first '/' in the definition of
> REPOSITORY.  Or just set REPOSITORY to exclude the first '/' before you
> run the makefile.
>
> Unless I'm missing something, this does seem a bit off-topic.  Is this really
> specifically a problem with Cygwin?
>
>
>
>
>
> Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
> RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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