Cygwin mount option -s is not supported

[KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cygwin <cygwin-bounces@cygwin.com> On Behalf Of Brian Inglis
> Sent: 25 November 2020 21:59
> 
> On 2020-11-25 11:26, Vlado via Cygwin wrote:
> > On 25.11.2020 15:18, KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT) wrote:
> 
> Mount -s was removed in 2008:
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-
> cygwin.git;a=commitdiff;h=5f853b3fc5277da8cb5ba3ac7406447fe82e65de
> three months after it was set to be ignored.

That explains the mystery. Thanks!

> >>    if [ -n "`uname -s |grep -i cygwin_`" ]; then
> >>    # If we are on an new version of Cygnus we need to turn <letter>:/
> >> in
> >>    # the path to/cygdrive/<letter>/
> 
> Use of 'Cygnus' refers to 20+ years ago when Cygwin was a product.

So, it might have been working quite "recently" then :)

> > Hard to say why Oracle's script is written this way. Standard Cygwin
> > tool for file names conversion is cygpath. Instead of using sed, one
> > can write WL_HOME_CYGWIN=`cygpath -u $WL_HOME`
> > - simpler and the result will be more consistent. Example
> >
> > $ WL_HOME='C:\some\dir\subdir'            # Windows path $ echo
> > "$WL_HOME" | sed "s#\([a-zA-Z]\):#/cygdrive/c/\1#g"
> > /cygdrive/c/C\some\dir\subdir             # mixed forward and back
> > slashes $ cygpath -u "$WL_HOME"
> > /cygdrive/c/some/dir/subdir               # pretty Cygwin path
> 
> Especially note the cygpath -U -> /proc/cygdrive/, -a -> /..., and -p path
> conversion options should be used as appropriate: try all three!

Cygpath then is the correct approach to resolve this issue. I had no doubt about that. Anyway, this is not the only problem. They have messed the CLASSPATH as well and it needs to be updated to the correct libraries.

Panos