From: ASSI <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygport install infinite loop in src_postinstall under __prep_libtool_modules
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2020 07:27:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wo3ipm50.fsf@Otto.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <359290a2-b299-ad90-5083-30789099a3eb@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (Brian Inglis's message of "Sat, 4 Jul 2020 13:35:54 -0600")
Brian Inglis writes:
> until readlink returns root and just keeps on going, possibly because my Cygwin
> home is a symlink to my Windows home, but this approach would have problems with
> any symlinks along the path to the cygport dir, as $D is not similarly resolved.
Don't do this, at least unless you are never ever using any software
that might also use the same dot-files as Cygwin. Keep your Cygwin home
separate (@work I've made it a subdirectory in my user profile) and use
/etc/fstab.d/user or /etc/nsswicth.conf to make Cygwin mount it.
Regards,
Achim.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-05 5:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-04 19:35 Brian Inglis
2020-07-04 20:06 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-07-05 19:29 ` Brian Inglis
2020-07-05 5:27 ` ASSI [this message]
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