Mount cygwin root on Windows root

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From: Ben
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:08

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Hey, I'm used to working with Windows (and using Command Prompt for my
"shell"), but I've recently been switching to using cygwin and bash.
The problem is, I really don't like having to go to /cygdrive/c to get
the actual Windows root, and although I played a bit with setting the
prefix to /c, I still would prefer to have the cygwin root "/"
coincide with the Windows root "C:".

Currently I have the cygwin installation on the root ("C:"), which is
working perfectly, but I'd rather have the cygwin installation on C:
\cygwin. I've tried doing that and mounting "C:" on "/", which seems
to work, but it causes several bad side effects, like I can't get g++
to work, and I can't view any man pages ("Warning: cannot open
configuration file /usr/share/misc/man.conf"), etc. Does anyone have
any suggestions for how I can get this to work? Thanks.

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