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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:38:10 +0200
From: "Vincent R." <forumer@smartmobili.com>
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Subject: Re: weird feature
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On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:15:18 +0200, "Vincent R." <forumer@smartmobili.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know that my question could be a bit astonishing but I am not afraid to
> ask it ;-)
> I am trying to compile a software for symbian platform and originally
they
> have released a SDK on windows 
> linked with mingw and where you use a DOS terminal to compile.
> They have designed some build system mixing mingw/perl/dos command (yuk!)
> but I don't want to follow their logic
> and I wouldn't like to install mingw (last time I tried I had so many
> issues I don't want to try again).
> 
> So my question is would it be possible for cygwin to understand path like
> that :
> 
> /myfolder/foo instead of /cygdrive/c/myfolder/foo
> 
> What I mean is it seems that their toolchain is considering /... as
> DRIVELETTER_WHERE_ITS_INSTALLED/...
> 
> Would it be possible I don't know by declaring a env var to allow that
kind
> of behavior ?
> 
> So we would be able to go to 'unix' folder (cd /usr) and to real windows
> folders (cd /Windows). 
> 
Hum think there are mount options where I could find some happiness. Need
to read doc.


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