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Re: shared lib+symlinks patch for cygwin

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Jun 22, 2008, 08:10 UTC
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Reini Urban wrote:
> esp. on cygwin where file hardlinks do not work as on linux.
> old bindir 5.8MB, new 2.7MB

Hard links work just fine on Cygwin, assuming the underlying volume is NTFS. What you probably mean to say is that the Cygwin setup.exe program won't create hardlinks from the tarball when installing binary packages. But this could be worked around by creating the links with 'ln' in a postinstall script. Then NTFS users would get the space savings and FAT users would get copies.

Brian
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