Setting cygdrive prefix to '/' causes disappearing mounts

[Tim Prince]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Faylor" <cgf@cygnus.com>
To: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: Setting cygdrive prefix to '/' causes disappearing mounts


> 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.


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