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 news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 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 > > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
