Re: Boostrap error

[Guy Gascoigne - Piggford <guy@wyrdrune.com>]

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.
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>cygwin-mount.el (or cygwin32-mount.el whichever is more recent) handles all
>of that.
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>        Stefan
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