Re: [Mingw-msys] POSIX names for drive letters

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting "Schwarz, Konrad" <kon...@si...>:

>> Quoting "Schwarz, Konrad" <kon...@si...>:
>>
>> > MinGW: `/d/dir1/../../c/dir2/file' fails.  For the cross-generation
>>
>> Since it works for me with ls, I need a reduced example that
>> fails.
>
> I apologize for this misinformation.  MinGW handles it correctly.  It
> doesn't show the volumes as subdirectories of / though, which `ls
> /cygdrive' or `ls /dev/fs' does on Cygwin/Interix.
>

A workaround would be to create the mount point directories for each 
drive letter in your MSYS root.  Assuming your root is c:/msys/1.0, you 
can create /c, /d, etc by ``mkdir /c/msys/1.0/c''.

Earnie Boyd

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