| delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi | search |
OK please clarify how I commandeered a thread? I addressed my email to the cygwin list and set my own subject. I was not replying to any other thread. Also this may not be the best solution, but I use cygwin for development. It may not be the perfect solution but it works well for switching development environments. I posted my comments because there may be someone out there who will say "Hey that will work for me too." Brian Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Brian Hawkins wrote: > >> Just FYI. I found a pretty good way to manage multiple cygwin installs. >> >> I use the windows subst command. >> >> It works like this. Create a directory c:\cyginstalls. Then beneath >> it create a directory for each cygwin install you want like cygwin1, >> cygwin2 whatever. Then use the subst command like so: >> subst x: c:\cyginstalls\cygwin1 >> >> Now install cygwin to x:\. Change the subst to >> c:\cyginstalls\cygwin2 and install again to x:\. >> >> To choose what cygwin you use just subst x to the appropriate >> folder. Kind of a poor mans symbolic link. > > > Why are you commandeering one thread to inject another? If you have > something you want to say and it has nothing to do with any previous > thread, just start a new one by sending email to the list. > > The flaw that I see with your approach is that you're not taking into > account any existing mounts in the mount table. Without resetting the > mount table in between each installation, you will very likely end up > with subsequent installations overwriting the first one. > > FWIW, if you want something similar to symbolic links for directories and > you're running W2K or above with NTFS, you can use reparse points. > See the > "junction" utility from www.sysinternal.com if you're interested in this. > -- 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/
| webmaster | delorie software privacy |
| Copyright © 2019 by DJ Delorie | Updated Jul 2019 |