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Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 18:47:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Hans Horn <hannes AT 2horns DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: invalid mounts after inst of cygwin1.5.10.3
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Ugh, top-posting...  Oh, well...

Should setup fix this (i.e., check for the final slash when building the
mount registry entries)?
	Igor

On Sun, 30 May 2004, Hans Horn wrote:

> Hi Pierre,
>
> yup - you are right, Mr Egle's eye. The manual mounts I created had a typo -
> but the cygwin inst wiped them anyways .
>
> yup, you are right again: there was a trailing backslash in my cygwin root.
> But that had been there since my first cygwin days (fall 2001).
> Has there been a change in behavour between cygwin 1.5.10.x and earlier
> versions?
> This tiny little backslash caused my a couple of days grief!
>
> thank you so much. finally I'm now able to compile and link again!
> H.
>
>
> "Pierre A. Humblet" wrote in message news:20040530025210 DOT GA790537 AT hpn5170x...
> > Hans,
> >
> > When you run setup, third screen, where you specify the root
> > directory. Does it have a final \ ? If so, remove it.
> > See also below.
> >
> > Pierre
> >
> > On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 03:34:31PM -0700, Hans Horn wrote:
> > > Pierre,
> > >
> > > this is what I just did:
> > >
> > > umount /usr/bin
> > > umount /usr/lib
> > >
> > > cd C:/cygwin/bin
> > > mount -f "C:\cygwin\bin" /usr/bin
> > > mount -f "C:\cygwin\lib" /usr/lib
> > >
> > > mount
> > > C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system
> > > (binmode)
> > > C:\cywgin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
> > > C:\cywgin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
> >
> > ^^^ cyWGin really?
> >
> > > C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
> > > c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
> > > d: on /cygdrive/d type user (binmode,noumount)
> > > e: on /cygdrive/e type user (binmode,noumount)
> > >
> > >
> > > [install cygwin1.5.10.3]
> > > mount
> > > C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system
> > > (binmode)
> > > C:\cygwin\\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
> > > C:\cygwin\\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
> > > C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
> > > c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
> > > d: on /cygdrive/d type user (binmode,noumount)
> > > e: on /cygdrive/e type user (binmode,noumount)
> > >
> > > Obviously, install screws things up.
> > > H.
> > >
> > > "Pierre A. Humblet" wrote in message news:20040529150552 DOT GA915273 AT hpn5170x...
> > > > On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 07:30:17AM -0700, Hans Horn wrote:
> > > > > subject says it all.
> > > > > after inst of cygwin1.5.10.3 the default mounts are hosed (contain double
> > > > > slash). cygcheck output attached.
> > > > > could somebody pls fix that?
> > > >
> > > > It looks like the registry values of the mounts contain a backslash
> > > > followed by a forward slash. I have no idea where that comes from nor
> > > > why it affects 5.10.3 differently.
> > > > Perhaps you could reissue the mount commands, using the -f flag to overwrite
> > > > the existing values.
> > > >
> > > > Pierre

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