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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:01:20 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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Greetings, Gary Oberbrunner!

> Thanks for the replies, cygwin people!

> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Andrey Repin" <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
> ...
>> 
>> > I understand about not installing cygwin in c:\.  But I really want
>> > a single
>> > filesystem, so cygwin's / is Windows c:/, and cygwin /Program\
>> > Files is
>> > Windows /Program Files and so on.
>> 
>> Having single filesystem, and having cygwin mounted on root is not
>> the same.

> Sorry, I was not clear -- I mean the same filesystem between cygwin and
> Windows.  And I only care about the C drive (I've learned to keep everything
> there). 

That's generally bad practice. But up to you, I suppose.

>> > I have an environment with lots of non-cygwin tools and translating
>> > paths between them is not workable.
>> 
>> Especially not the same, when you start to interoperate with
>> non-cygwin applications, and when you start to update your Cygwin installation.
>> 
>> Heed my suggestion, don't do it.

> Well, it's worked pretty well for me for the last 10 years. :-)
> Of course I've also learned not to update my cygwin. :-)

>> First, it just wrong. And were causing infinite grief in the past.
>> So, Cygwin
>> maintainers changed scheme to force some mounts off of cygwin1.dll
>> location.

> Can you say more about this?

> ...
>> Guess, what? It didn't worked well past the HDD mounts. 

> Correct -- I don't care about that (D drive etc.).  What I do care about is
> being able to mix cygwin command line tools with non-cygwin.  For example,
> Intel compiler.  Or (non-cygwin) python.  I'm really used to being able to say

>   # ls /my/path/foo.py
>   # python !$
> or
>   # vim /my/path/foo.cc   (cygwin)
>   # icl -c !$             (non-cygwin)

> and have it just work, like on Linux.  Not have to translate paths around
> and remember which utility is cygwin-based and which isn't. (I'm old, and
> seem to have become a serious command-line Windows hacker, but I'm still
> really a Unix guy.) 

As I said, if switching root folder works for you, you can make junctions back
to C:\ from Cygwin installation and have it work straights.


--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 18.10.2012, <15:59>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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