From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,dc7ae4ba7bf202da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!fdn.fr!news.wanadoo.fr!news.wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail Message-ID: <48AD27F0.2050003@obry.net> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:31:44 +0200 From: Pascal Obry Organization: Home - http://www.obry.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080708 Thunderbird/2.0.0.16 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada To: Stephen Leake Subject: Re: GTK Build from source References: <56427db9-557f-44c2-8325-b3c44a4db8f8@z66g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <16c33788-3d54-494e-9e4f-bc8178ef11a1@d77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <63788cfe-4253-4244-ba50-6bf6f3ce51e3@k7g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> <48AB2982.3080100@obry.net> <04308fda-833d-4e4c-a007-ec7d07a05521@k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Aug 2008 10:31:48 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 90.2.74.169 X-Trace: 1219307508 news.orange.fr 966 90.2.74.169:6877 X-Complaints-To: abuse@orange.fr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1707 Date: 2008-08-21T10:31:48+02:00 List-Id: 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. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.net --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key C1082595