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Re: shared lib+symlinks patch for cygwin

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Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at>
Date
Jun 22, 2008, 08:19 UTC
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2008/6/22 Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>:
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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.

And you have Administrator rights, yes. On cygwin you can install packages without having root perms.

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> 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.

Good. So just postinstall.sh has to be fixed. Anyway, I like the symlink approach to be fixed also.

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