Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <20000421023308.19822.qmail@web121.yahoomail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 19:33:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: w2k problem with new release and autoconf and with reversion to old To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Chris Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 03:21:08PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: -8<- > > > >This is by design. There's a difference now between `user' mount > >points and `system' mount points. setup.exe creates all mount > >points as `user' mount points. For the purpose of creating > >`system' mount points, mount.exe has a new option `-s' now. > > Hmm. Should we change this? It is no problem to make all of the > mounts that setup does system mounts. It would require that you > have administrator privileges to run cygwin, though. > Absolutely _not_ IMO. I think that the system mounts should only be added by the administrator upon setup of the system. > The autoconf problems are undoubtedly due to \r\n line endings. > The setup program mounts everything as binary mounts. > Yep, this will be a problem with changing from text mounts to binary mounts. ===== --- Earnie Boyd: __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ Mingw32 List: Mingw Home: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com