From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor) Subject: Re: Treatment of absolute paths by cygwin 26 Nov 1998 17:26:38 -0800 Message-ID: <19981126195918.D18444.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@cygnus.com> References: <16538 DOT 981126 AT is DOT lg DOT ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Paul Sokoilovsky , cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 12:54:53PM +0200, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: >Hello Cygwin32-developers, > > As of previous experience, I get used to put all development stuff >on one disk, so I may skip drive letter in path, and with mingw32, I >even get normal POSIX paths like /usr/bin at no cost. But cygwin >introduces its own way of mounting. That's sure not bad and even may >be useful, but that that view forced is embarrassing, imho. I just have >spent some time wondering why mkdir -p /egcs/include doesn't create >anything (silently). I was sure that mkdir worked before, and only >when I looked and saw there were relative path, I understand where's >problem: all toplevel directories must be mounted ;-\ > > So, my proposal is after mount table (how wonderful it would be, if >before!) search just try to perform operation directly. > > Sorry that I don't send patch, I have know experience of hacking >cygdll, and don't have time for startup now, I guess author can that >in five minutes, if they find that sane. I'm sorry. I don't understand what you're trying to report here. Could you provide a series of bash instructions which demonstrate the problem you're reporting. Also provide us with the output of cygcheck. Thanks, chris