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Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:49:14 +0000 Received: from DM6PR04MB5738.namprd04.prod.outlook.com ([fe80::cc3:c238:852e:5831]) by DM6PR04MB5738.namprd04.prod.outlook.com ([fe80::cc3:c238:852e:5831%7]) with mapi id 15.20.2665.026; Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:49:14 +0000 Received: from [10.13.22.8] (65.112.130.194) by BN6PR10CA0004.namprd10.prod.outlook.com (2603:10b6:405:1::14) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id 15.20.2665.20 via Frontend Transport; Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:49:14 +0000 From: Ken Brown To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" Subject: Re: grace broken installation Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:49:00 -0000 Message-ID: <0e8bbc9f-d30a-4a34-1b29-808f3d2869a4@cornell.edu> References: <08de4c07-3ec9-d169-bb56-b53b4367da12@cornell.edu> <8d3ef7a0-5fee-29e4-6642-791f3491b812@t-online.de> <4082bff7-2778-102b-2c55-d8c3cbdafc78@SystematicSw.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: <4082bff7-2778-102b-2c55-d8c3cbdafc78@SystematicSw.ab.ca> user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 authentication-results: spf=none (sender IP is ) smtp.mailfrom=kbrown@cornell.edu; x-ms-oob-tlc-oobclassifiers: OLM:4714; received-spf: None (protection.outlook.com: cornell.edu does not designate permitted sender hosts) x-ms-exchange-senderadcheck: 1 x-ms-exchange-antispam-messagedata: r9pj21HIf2diiQXEE5CR37c5e6W3RuheUzOOKRBQxdXfdO4SopTY6G/VtEyB4fQOAoqVRUPB4mtHLUgKXXNNF9UmzUDijTTE0Xylva2vbWX1H5jyJEmayXIhoyQy0OStW43k4XwVj/i3ICKlALcKQQ== x-ms-exchange-transport-forked: True Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-mailboxtype: HOSTED X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-userprincipalname: Qf8ZdTmPh5iXf2RQ6wrViQOUu0FGjBWCGg6thvfd2aNKt/9qPbCcw3aE3SsaCLJx8RT1w7jl135eRfQEGS1X0Q== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2020-01/txt/msg00267.txt.bz2 On 1/28/2020 1:38 AM, Brian Inglis wrote: > Links should only be applied during build processes to allow building and > testing to complete successfully. > Build link types may not be compatible with tar or the target file system= and > should not be included in packages for distribution e.g. they may only wo= rk on > systems configured for WSL and with WSL installed. > Distributed package links should be generated during post-install process= ing and > should fall back to file copies if links are unsupported on the target fi= le system. Many Cygwin packages contain symlinks that are not generated during=20 post-install. setup handles them just fine. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple