Re: [Mingw-users] Portable MSYS ?

[Bj R. <whi...@gm...>]

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Earnie <ea...@us...> wrote:
> 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 :-)
>>
Here is my 2 cents, I don't know if this is completely relevant, but;
in an ini file where you are telling windows I want you to run on the
root of this device, a file called; 'xyz.abc' you can tell it run it
on "\zxy.abc" can you tell msys to run on the root directly? as "/"
apposed to "/<drive letter>/folders"?
>
> 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.
>
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> Earnie
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