Hi Brian, * Brian Dessent wrote on Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 06:42:07AM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > OK with a (completely) binmounted cygwin. > > With text mode mounts I got several failures. > > Somebody should test this, maybe it was just my cygwin > > setup being broken. How could one change this quickly > > without a full reinstall and regedit? > > Editing the registry is discouraged since at some point the mount table > might be stored elsewhere. Yes, I've read that. > The mount command takes -b and -t to specify > binary or text mode, and "mount -m" will output a list of mount commands > to recreate the current mount table, so to switch all mounts from binary > to text you can do something like: > > mount -m | sed -e s,-b,-t, | bash This did not work IIRC, because the corresponding mounts were still in use. I have a simple, maybe even embarrassing question here though: how exactly will the modes affect program behavior? For example: I have an installed Autoconf below /usr, where / is binmode mounted. So then all .m4 files it comes with will be in binmode? What now if I have a text mode /home? What happens if I change the mode of / after installation of the package? The fact that I was not able to easily come up with a simple answer led me to thinking that a reinstall with changed modes was the safest way to test. > If you just want to change the mode of one particular mount you can just > give the indiviual mount command with either -b or -t, e.g.: > > mount -t $(cygpath -m /foobar) /foobar > > Of course this defaults to "system" mode, and if you happen to be using > user mode mounts then that will confuse things since you'll wind up with > two different entries in the table, so the first version is somewhat > safer. Ah, ok. Thanks for the quick feedback! Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
