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Re: Re: strange cygwin effect
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:11:49PM +0100, John Dallaway wrote:
>Neundorf, Alexander wrote:
>>I noticed a strange effect when using ecos with cygwin: suddenly my
>>"/cygdrive/d/" appears as "/ecos-d/", which is entered in the registry
>>as a cygwin mountpoint. Any idea why this happens ?
>
>This behaviour was implemented within the eCos hosts tools years ago to
>ensure that the source code was always accessed via a Cygwin text-mode
>mount during compilation. This was necessary due to a limitation of
>the toolchains of that era. The use of text-mode mounts should no
>longer be strictly necessary and, at some point, this behaviour will be
>removed.
>From a package standpoint, I think it is a good idea to mount the d:
drive with some consistent name, though. It's possible to change the
/cygdrive prefix to something else so "mount d: /ecos-d" would make
things more predictable.
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