> > 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?
Yes, it is most definitely a boost bug and should be reported upstream. POSIX allows implementations to treat leading // specially, so boost is violating POSIX by normalizing it. -- Eric Blake -- 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/
