On 3/27/06, Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > > Brian Hawkins wrote: > > > Just FYI. I found a pretty good way to manage multiple cygwin installs. > > > > > > I use the windows subst command. > > > > > > It works like this. Create a directory c:\cyginstalls. Then beneath > > > it create a directory for each cygwin install you want like cygwin1, > > > cygwin2 whatever. Then use the subst command like so: > > > subst x: c:\cyginstalls\cygwin1 > > > > > > Now install cygwin to x:\. Change the subst to c:\cyginstalls\cygwin2 > > > and install again to x:\. > > > > > > To choose what cygwin you use just subst x to the appropriate folder. > > > Kind of a poor mans symbolic link. > > > > Why are you commandeering one thread to inject another? If you have > > something you want to say and it has nothing to do with any previous > > thread, just start a new one by sending email to the list. > > Very true. > > > The flaw that I see with your approach is that you're not taking into > > account any existing mounts in the mount table. Without resetting the > > mount table in between each installation, you will very likely end up > > with subsequent installations overwriting the first one. > > Not quite true. The mounts aren't a problem in this case, since they'll > be pointing to x: (not whatever x: is substed to). However, you have to > make *very* sure that a) none of these directories are in the PATH, and b) > none of the programs in those directories are invoked explicitly (in > particular, services will be a problem). > > > FWIW, if you want something similar to symbolic links for directories > > and you're running W2K or above with NTFS, you can use reparse points. > > See the "junction" utility from www.sysinternal.com if you're interested > > in this. This link is broken(@ least for me) takes you to a popup netster.com site.
> > True, but the same exact issues arise regarding the PATH and running > programs/services. > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." > "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in > that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" > > -- > 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/ > > -- Take a look - not only for computer people ;) http://www.seabreeze.co.th -- 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/
