From: Earnie <ea...@us...> - 2011-05-08 20:35:01
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stn021 wrote: > The one thing that is not immediately obvious is the folder \etc and its > files. If that is missing the msys-programs terminate without any output, > error or warning. > Only the directory is needed for the thread to work correctly. > It appears the the contents of the files in \etc are NOT important. > My \etc\fstab always contains the line "D:\MinGW\ /mingw". > Yet I can plug the USB-stick anywhere with different drive-letters and/or > copy msys+etc to different drives (tried C:, D:, F:, G:) and it always > works. No modifications necessary. Very nice :-) > Well /etc/fstab is the WINDOWS to POSIX directory mapper. This is the file that the MSYS thread watching /etc cares about so that when you change the file the mount table is refreshed. So if D:\MinGW is available then no matter where MSYS exists, /mingw will point to D:\MinGW. I D:\MinGW doesn't exist you will get an error during the access of /mingw. -- Earnie -- http://www.for-my-kids.com |