Re: [Mingw-users] possible to warn on failed path setting, perhaps?

[Roger P. <rog...@gm...>]

Any feedback on this proposal?
Thanks.
-rp

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I've noticed the following (I'm sure this is old news).  If
msys/xxx/etc/fstab is setup incorrectly, some of the path doesn't show
up when you run things using msys.

ex:

normal:

packrd@PACKRD-1GK7V /
$ echo $PATH
.:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin:/c/Ruby19/devkit/gcc/3.4.5/bin:/bin:/c/Ruby19/bin/

errant fstab:

packrd@PACKRD-1GK7V /
$ echo $PATH
.:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin:/c/Ruby19/bin/

This can cause confusion for people who don't realize what's happening.

Suggestion: perhaps output a message to stderr when one of the fstab
mount points fails, perhaps?  I could hack up a patch for it,
probably.