Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <3B375F68.2010608@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:57:28 -0400 From: "Charles S. Wilson" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607 Netscape6/6.1b1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Cygwin root at C:\ [Fwd from xemacs-nt list] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit An exchange on the xemacs-nt mailing list: ben wing asked: > you should at least clarify your recommendation by saying > "we discourage setting your root to C:\ if you are or ever > will be using another Unix toolkit, such as UWin or MKS" > rather than just a blanket "no". See thread below for context; I just thought I'd pass this along. --Chuck -------- Original Message -------- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 05:22:30 -0700 From: Ben Wing To: "Charles S. Wilson" CC: "David A. Cobb" Xemacs-WinNT AT xemacs DOT org, Craig Lanning , Nedko Arnaudov , Andy Piper Subject: Re: mingw and xemacs "Charles S. Wilson" wrote: > > Ben Wing wrote: > > > > > "David A. Cobb" wrote: > >> > >>OK. The "really bad news" is that the Cygwin folk pretty consistently say > >>that mounting root at "C:\" is a BAD IDEA. I know that wouldn't preclude > >>creating a C:\usr\src and mounting it at /usr/src, but it looks kludgy and, > >>anyway, there's not room on my C: drive to do any serious building there. > >> > > > > i think this is utterly bogus. > > > > i have consistently been mounting cygwin root at c:\ ever since b19.something, > > and i'm constantly mixing cygwin and non-cygwin tools and uses, and i've never > > run into any problems. > > > > But Ben, do you mix cygwin tools with *other unix emulation environment* > tools like UWin and mks ? On the cygwin list, we got so fraggin' tired > of people blaming our installation for breaking other toolkits that we > made the default install topdir be _:\cygwin, instead of _:\ You can > still choose _:\ as your root if you like, but it's discouraged because > of the UWin/mks compatibility issues. If you don't use those other > toolkits -- you should have no problems. But we will continue to > recommend against it. ah, i see. well, you should at least clarify your recommendation by saying "we discourage setting your root to C:\ if you are or ever will be using another Unix toolkit, such as UWin or MKS" rather than just a blanket "no". > > Now, to address Craig's complaint, you can still do a "spot-mount" to > get matching native and cygwin paths, if you have installed cygwin into > _:\cygwin as recommended. For instance, if you have your cygwin > installation in D:\cygwin, and your xemacs sources in D:\xemacs\sources, > then in cygwin, you can do this: > > cd \ > mkdir -p /xemacs/sources > mount -b D:/xemacs/sources /xemacs/sources > > I make no judgements here about the necessity of doing this, however; > I'm not sure I understand Craig's argument. > > --Chuck -- ben I'm sometimes slow in getting around to reading my mail, so if you want to reach me faster, call 520-661-6661. See http://www.666.com/ben/chronic-pain/ for the hell I've been through. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple