Re: [Mingw-msys] Recursive Directory Workaround

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

On 10:05:36 pm 2005-06-07 "Michael S. Zick" <ms...@mo...> wrote:
> Max,
> In the directions about taking out the "\bin" in
> the "start in" field of the msys  short cuts;
>

The short cut "start in" field for older verions of MSYS was necessary to
be the MSYS bin directory.  I don't see why we are needing to modify that. 
I missed something.

> Change that to take out the "\1.0\bin" in the
> "start in" field of the msys short cut.
>
> msys will come up with "~" corresponding to
> the $HOME (windows) environment variable.
>
> In my case my windows user home directory,
> since that is how I set it in my windows startup.
>
> Now you find that:
> (nix)"/" and (win)"/w/msys/1.0/" are the same place.
>
> Also the "mount" in fstab gives the intended effect.
>
> What is reported by "mount" is:
> W:\msys\1.0 on /
> W:\msys\1.0 on /usr

These are automounted based on the location of the msys-1.0.dll.  The
location of msys-1.0.dll in your example is W:\msys\1.0\bin so the
automount for / and /usr is W:\msys\1.0\bin\.. and this happens regardless
of the "start in" value of the shortcut.

> C:\MikeTmp on /tmp (My windows environment setting)

This is also an automount and is taken from the TEMP environment variable.

> w:\MinGW on /mingw (My msys fstab setting)

As you say.

> - - - -
> Network drive mappings follow.
> - - - -
>
> Translation: msys startup is auto-adding the version number.
> This added version number is carried into the "mount" structure.
>

See above.

> The fstab entries are relative to the "start in" field of the short
> cut without the auto-added version number.
>

No.  The "start in" field is not taken into consideration for the fstab
entries.  The /etc/fstab file is simply read adding entries to the mount
table for each line.

> If you know where to if 0 ... endif that second startup mapping
> of:  "start in" + "version number" on /usr I think we will be on a
> roll.
>
> P.S: The $WD is still screwed, it still has the empty field for the
> version number, the: "msys\\bin" thingy.
> It needs to either have its version number added or the empty
> field removed.

Are we talking about Max's patch to msys.bat?  I haven't had time to look
at that yet.  I'm confused.

Earnie

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