Re: GTK Build from source

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>]

Stephen,

> Also, installing Cygwin at c:/ (_not_ c:/cygwin) makes things _much_
> nicer; then windows c:/foo/bar is the _same_ as cygwin /foo/bar; no
> /cygdrive/c/ or `cygpath -w /foo/bar' necessary. The Cygwin installer
> complains when you do this; that's because it assumes you don't know
> what you are doing, and might have some other bin directory at c:/bin.
> Ignore the complaint!

This is true, but I hate having lot of dir on my top level C drive. My 
configuration is:

- I install Cygwin into c:\cygwin

- I mount my working directories:

   $ mount c:\\home /home
   $ mount c:\\opt /opt

As all my work is done into my home directory (/home/obry) no problem 
either with /cygdrive/c or whatever. As I install some stuff on /opt the 
mount point makes this possible too.

There is one single rule to follow for directories that must be accessed 
by Cygwin and standard Windows applications (ming based compiler for 
example):

    -> those directories must be accessed using an equivalent PATH

       c:\whatever must be equivalent to /whatever

So mount points are quite handy there.

> Not me!

Likewise! cmd.exe is junk for developers.

Pascal.

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