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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 18:57:21 -0400
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Subject: Re: Setting cygdrive prefix to '/' causes disappearing mounts
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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

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