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Re: cygwin 1.7: why there is a directory E/cygwin/dev in the tree of cygwin ?
Andy Koppe wrote:
> Christopher Faylor:
>> rolandc:
>>> I have installed cygwin 1.7 in e:\cygwin1.7
>>> After installation, there is a "strange" directory :
>>> /E/cygwin1.7/dev/ (posix path)
>>> E:\cygwin1.7\E\cygwin1.7\dev (win32 path)
>>>
>>> What is the role of this directory?
>> It is "/dev".
>
> /dev would be E:\cygwin1.7\dev, not E:\cygwin1.7\E\cygwin1.7\dev.
>
> Looks like a bug to me, and the finger of blame points at
> /etc/postinstall/{00,}bash.sh:
>
> DEVDIR="$(cygpath -au "C:/$(cygpath -am /dev/)" | sed 's|/c/\(.\):/|/\1/|')"
> mkdir -p "$DEVDIR" || result=1
>
> I haven't stared at the sed magic long enough to work out exactly what
> it does or why, but it looks suspiciously like it assumes that Cygwin
> is installed on the C drive.
This looks to be the same as the following problem:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00944.html
-- Cliff
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