David Arnstein writes: > > I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my > home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This > is a network directory, obviously. > > When lyx starts up, it emits a complaint > QSettings: error creating /fs-sj1-15/darnstein/.qt > > When I try to save a lyx document to my home directory, lyx complains > when it presents its file browser dialog box. It says > Could not read directory /fs-sj1-15 > > It appears that lyx is trying to access the root directory (/). It > does not seem to know how to interpret the Windows syntax "//."
This is because lyx uses the boostfs library with BOOST_POSIX defined, so any path of the form //xxx/yyy is normalized to /xxx/yyy. I understand that //machine/path is a windowism, but I think that it should be allowed on cygwin. Can this be seen a boost bug? -- Enrico -- 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/
