Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 18:57:21 -0400 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Setting cygdrive prefix to '/' causes disappearing mounts Message-ID: <20000916185721.A12702@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <20000915232050.A8958@cygnus.com> <003901c01fd4$b8cf8730$6f6b8ad1@timayum4srqln4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: <003901c01fd4$b8cf8730$6f6b8ad1@timayum4srqln4>; from tprince@computer.org on Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 04:53:24AM -0700 On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 04:53:24AM -0700, Tim Prince wrote: >> I asked Corinna to look into this as soon as she has some time. >> >> cgf >> >> On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 01:30:27PM -0400, David Condon wrote: >. Now that I have a little better understanding >> >of how the cygdrive prefix works, I can see that there is really no good >> >reason to change it to '/' anyway. However, the User Guide uses this exact >> >command as an example (3.11, "Changing the default prefix") in the section >> >on "mount". It seems that it would be appropriate to change that to anything >> >other than '/' and add a warning that setting it to '/' causes the mount >> >table to be cleared. > >I just found out that installing cygwin at root is a way to get dejagnu >working again. Probably it's only /usr/share which dejagnu is not >accessing through the standard mount when installed at e.g. >E:\cygwin\usr\share. I had the environment set so that 'less >$DEJAGNULIBS/runtest.exp' was displaying correctly, yet dejagnu says it >doesn't exist, when cygwin is installed the recommended way. The dejagnu that is currently released with cygwin uses a Windows version of TCL that doesn't understand Cygwin paths. It's that simple. This has nothing to do with the problem of the mount table disappearing. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com