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Re: w2k problem with new release and autoconf and with reversion to old
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: w2k problem with new release and autoconf and with reversion to old
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 19:33:08 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 03:21:08PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
-8<-
> >
> >This is by design. There's a difference now between `user' mount
> >points and `system' mount points. setup.exe creates all mount
> >points as `user' mount points. For the purpose of creating
> >`system' mount points, mount.exe has a new option `-s' now.
>
> Hmm. Should we change this? It is no problem to make all of the
> mounts that setup does system mounts. It would require that you
> have administrator privileges to run cygwin, though.
>
Absolutely _not_ IMO. I think that the system mounts should only be added by
the administrator upon setup of the system.
> The autoconf problems are undoubtedly due to \r\n line endings.
> The setup program mounts everything as binary mounts.
>
Yep, this will be a problem with changing from text mounts to binary mounts.
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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