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From: Guy Gascoigne - Piggford <guy@wyrdrune.com>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Boostrap error
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:31:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41925E81.1050107@wyrdrune.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv8y99k76v.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

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
>>    
>>
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>>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.
>
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>        Stefan
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-10 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-08  7:51 Boostrap error Guy Gascoigne-Piggford
2004-11-08  8:40 ` Jason Rumney
2004-11-08  9:40   ` Jan D.
2004-11-08 10:20     ` Stephan Stahl
2004-11-08 10:30     ` Jason Rumney
2004-11-08 10:44       ` Jason Rumney
2004-11-08 17:40       ` Jan D.
     [not found]         ` <029f01c4c5be$422cd8f0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488>
2004-11-08 20:55           ` Jan D.
2004-11-08 21:32             ` Jason Rumney
2004-11-08 21:40               ` Jan D.
2004-11-09 18:52             ` Lennart Borgman
2004-11-10  8:51               ` Jan D.
     [not found]                 ` <052d01c4c726$612d4d20$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488>
2004-11-10 14:12                   ` Jan D.
2004-11-10 16:20                     ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-10 18:31                       ` Guy Gascoigne - Piggford [this message]
2004-11-10 23:53                         ` Lennart Borgman
2004-11-11 20:35                 ` Guy Gascoigne-Piggford

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