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Re: invalid mounts after inst of cygwin1.5.10.3


On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 06:47:08PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Ugh, top-posting...  Oh, well...
> 
> Should setup fix this (i.e., check for the final slash when building the
> mount registry entries)?
> 	Igor

Cygwin has already been patched to be more forgiving, but that will be too
late for many. Quickly releasing a version of setup with the fix would prevent
frustrations, although I don't know how prevalent the problem is.
Was there a time where setup was including a final \ in the default root
directory on a clean system?

Pierre

> On Sun, 30 May 2004, Hans Horn wrote:
> 
> > Hi Pierre,
> >
> > yup - you are right, Mr Egle's eye. The manual mounts I created had a typo -
> > but the cygwin inst wiped them anyways .
> >
> > yup, you are right again: there was a trailing backslash in my cygwin root.
> > But that had been there since my first cygwin days (fall 2001).
> > Has there been a change in behavour between cygwin 1.5.10.x and earlier
> > versions?
> > This tiny little backslash caused my a couple of days grief!
> >
> > thank you so much. finally I'm now able to compile and link again!
> > H.
> >
> >
> > "Pierre A. Humblet" wrote in message 20040530025210.GA790537@hpn5170x">news:20040530025210.GA790537@hpn5170x...
> > > Hans,
> > >
> > > When you run setup, third screen, where you specify the root
> > > directory. Does it have a final \ ? If so, remove it.
> > > See also below.
> > >
> > > Pierre
> > >

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