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Re: mount -X and FAQ [Attn: FAQ Maintainer, tcl maintainer]
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 06:23:38AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
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>According to Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) on 9/15/2005 10:48 AM:
>>
>> Finally got around to trying that one, but it broke the
>> tkinfo (Tcl/Tk) script I use regularly. Some experimenting
>> revealed that I had to add the following to make it work:
>>
>> mount -f -b -x "c:/cygwin/bin/wish84.exe" "/bin/wish84.exe"
>> mount -f -b -x "c:/cygwin/bin/wish84.exe" "/usr/bin/wish84.exe"
>>
>> and presumably I'd also want:
>>
>> mount -f -b -x "c:/cygwin/bin/tclsh84.exe" "/bin/tclsh84.exe"
>> mount -f -b -x "c:/cygwin/bin/tclsh84.exe" "/usr/bin/tclsh84.exe"
>>
>> The FAQ (http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html) mentions
>> using this idiom for strace and cygcheck, but not for
>> Tcl/Tk. Perhaps these should be noted as well?
>
>Now that strace and cygcheck work in without having to explicitly mount
>them non-cygexec, the FAQ needs updating anyways. On the other hand, is
>there any possibility that the tcl maintainer can tweak tcl to work when
>mounted cygexec by borrowing from what cygcheck did?
No. I'm not going to do this. Sorry.
cgf
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