Re: [Mingw-users] Portable MSYS ?

[Joel S. <jsa...@bg...>]

Keith Marshall <keithmarshall@...> writes:
>  We may need to add start-up code to /etc/profile, so we can rewrite
> /etc/fstab to make drive letter assignments for paths on the USB device
> follow any changes to that device assignment.  This is an issue I have
> not yet needed to address, (because on every host where I've used my
> portable MSYS installation, the device has always had identically the
> same drive letter assignment), but I suspect it may only be a matter of
> time before I have to deal with it.

How about allowing relative paths in /etc/fstab?  E.g., on a PortableApps system 
with MinGW in U:\PortableApps\MinGW and MSys in U:\PortableApps\MinGW\msys, this 
would look something like this:

    # Win32 Path        Mount Point
    ../..               /mingw

Does this seem reasonable?

--Joel