Re: Boostrap error

[Guy Gascoigne - Piggford]

I've been slowly trying various solutions here trying to get things 
building, my biggest problem has actually been lack of time rather than 
lack of interest.

So, if cygwin-mount.el does all of this, why don't we use it?

Guy

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> > In cygwin you can change the prefix, it can be changed to any string.
> > The patch only handles the default /cygdrive.  I use /cyg myself.
> > Also, only single letter mounts that corresponds to DOS drives are handeled
> > (i.e. /d/src <=> d:/src).  But cygwin lets you mount paths anywhere and
> > multiple times.  I mount d:/src under /usr/src, so these three paths go to
> > the same directory:
> >   /cyg/d/src
> >   /d/src
> >   /usr/src
> >    
>
>  
>
> > The possibilites are endless, so a simple regexp can not capture this in the
> > general case.
> >    
>
> cygwin-mount.el (or cygwin32-mount.el whichever is more recent) handles all
> of that.
>
>
>        Stefan
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