Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1998/11/26/17:26:38
On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 12:54:53PM +0200, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>Hello Cygwin32-developers,
>
> As of previous experience, I get used to put all development stuff
>on one disk, so I may skip drive letter in path, and with mingw32, I
>even get normal POSIX paths like /usr/bin at no cost. But cygwin
>introduces its own way of mounting. That's sure not bad and even may
>be useful, but that that view forced is embarrassing, imho. I just have
>spent some time wondering why mkdir -p /egcs/include doesn't create
>anything (silently). I was sure that mkdir worked before, and only
>when I looked and saw there were relative path, I understand where's
>problem: all toplevel directories must be mounted ;-\
>
> So, my proposal is after mount table (how wonderful it would be, if
>before!) search just try to perform operation directly.
>
> Sorry that I don't send patch, I have know experience of hacking
>cygdll, and don't have time for startup now, I guess author can that
>in five minutes, if they find that sane.
I'm sorry. I don't understand what you're trying to report here.
Could you provide a series of bash instructions which demonstrate the
problem you're reporting. Also provide us with the output of cygcheck.
Thanks,
chris
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