From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Broken links in Cygwin installation
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 19:12:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1755994279.20220822191254@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f54626e1-6a7b-e49c-7745-c81c8e7ce4cb@cornell.edu>
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Greetings, Ken Brown!
> On 8/21/2022 7:42 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> Greetings, All!
>> > # LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 find -L / -xdev -type l -exec ls -ld --color '{}' +
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 anrdaemon None 28 Dec 26 2021 ./bin/rcs2log -> ../share/cvs/contrib/rcs2log
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 anrdaemon None 15 Nov 10 2021 ./lib/tcl8.6/tclConfig.sh -> ../tclConfig.sh
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 anrdaemon None 17 Feb 2 2020 ./lib/terminfo -> ../share/terminfo
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 anrdaemon None 14 Nov 18 2021 ./lib/tk8.6/tkConfig.sh -> ../tkConfig.sh
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 anrdaemon None 15 Nov 10 2021 ./usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclConfig.sh -> ../tclConfig.sh
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 anrdaemon None 14 Nov 18 2021 ./usr/lib/tk8.6/tkConfig.sh -> ../tkConfig.sh
>> > Is this… normal ?
> The first four are consequences of the fact that /bin is the same as
> /usr/bin and /lib is the same as /usr/lib. The links in question were
> actually installed in /usr/bin or /usr/lib. The package maintainers could
> avoid this issue by using absolute paths instead of relative ones in the
> symlink content, but I don't think it's likely to cause problems in practice.
> The last two symlinks would get resolved if you installed tcl-devel and
> tcl-tk-devel. I think it's fine to leave dangling symlinks in this situation.
Thanks, Ken! That helped me formulate the solution.
Small background: I've been moving my Cygwin installations around to match
path locations between different systems. I've ended up with a lot of broken
symlinks, between which some are actually lost.
I've baked a PowerShell script to solve the issue (see attachment).
Also in attachment a powershell startup wrapper for /usr/local/bin/
--
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Monday, August 22, 2022 15:49:38
Sorry for my terrible english...
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#!/bin/sh
_cmd="$( cygpath -am "$1" )"
shift
"/c/Program Files/PowerShell/7/pwsh.exe" "-NoLogo" "-File" "$_cmd" "$@"
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#!/usr/bin/env pwsh
Param(
[Parameter(Mandatory = $True, Position = 0, ValueFromPipeline = $false)]
[System.String]
$oldPath,
[Parameter(Mandatory = $True, Position = 1, ValueFromPipeline = $false)]
[System.String]
$newPath,
[Parameter(Mandatory = $True, Position = 2, ValueFromPipeline = $false, ValueFromRemainingArguments = $True)]
[System.String[]]
$paths
)
$paths | Where-Object {
$_ -and (Get-Item -Path $_).LinkTarget
} | ForEach-Object {
$target = $(Get-Item -Path $_)
If ($target.FullName.IndexOf($oldPath)) {
Write-Host "$($target.FullName)`n -> $($target.LinkTarget)"
$newTarget = $target.LinkTarget.Replace($oldPath, $newPath)
Write-Host -NoNewline " => $($newTarget)"
if (Test-Path -LiteralPath $newTarget) {
$rc = New-Item -Type SymbolicLink -Path $target.FullName -Target $newTarget -Force
Write-Host ''
} else {
Write-Host -ForegroundColor DarkRed ' (unfixed)'
}
}
}
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-22 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-21 11:42 Andrey Repin
2022-08-21 15:09 ` Ken Brown
2022-08-22 16:12 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2022-08-22 18:43 ` Andrey Repin
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