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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Andrey Repin via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lua-5.3.6-2
Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 12:26:59 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <354617499.20210531122659@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <508296605.20210531115401@yandex.ru>

Greetings, Andrey Repin via Cygwin!

> Trying to follow manually

> # /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/lua lua /usr/bin/lua5.3 503 --verbose --test
> reading /var/lib/alternatives/lua
> auto
> /usr/bin/lua

> /usr/bin/lua5.3
> 503
> would link /usr/bin/lua -> /etc/alternatives/lua
> would link /etc/alternatives/lua -> /usr/bin/lua5.3

> It seems "alternatives" is trying to create links to nonexistent files.
> Which is not possible under Windows.

> Manually creating source link let the thing go

> # ln -fsT /usr/bin/lua5.3 /etc/alternatives/lua
> # /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/lua lua /usr/bin/lua5.3 503 --verbose
> reading /var/lib/alternatives/lua

Err, though I've included that in the reply, but it seems I was distracted at
the moment.

CYGWIN=wincmdln winsymlinks:nativestrict glob:ignorecase


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Monday, May 31, 2021 12:26:03

Sorry for my terrible english...


  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-31  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-02  3:20 [ANNOUNCEMENT] lua 5.3.5-1 Yaakov Selkowitz
2021-05-19 22:27 ` [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lua-5.3.6-2 Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-announce
2021-05-27  8:49   ` Fergus Daly
2021-05-27  9:52     ` Lemures Lemniscati
2021-05-30 21:38   ` Andrey Repin
2021-05-30 23:30     ` Lemures Lemniscati
2021-05-31  4:12       ` Lemures Lemniscati
2021-05-31  8:54         ` Andrey Repin
2021-05-31  9:26           ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2021-05-31 10:41             ` Lemures Lemniscati
2021-06-01 14:39   ` Updated: lua-5.3.6-3 Lemures Lemniscati
2021-06-01 14:41   ` [ANNOUNCEMENT] " Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-announce
2021-06-04 13:16     ` Jon Turney
2021-06-04 16:10       ` Lemures Lemniscati
2021-06-05 22:26     ` [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lua-5.3.6-4 Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-announce
2021-05-19 22:47 ` [ANNOUNCEMENT] Test: lua-5.4.3-1 Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-announce
2021-06-01 14:46   ` [ANNOUNCEMENT] Test: lua-5.4.3-2 Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-announce
2021-06-05 22:36     ` [ANNOUNCEMENT] Test: lua-5.4.3-3 Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-announce
2022-03-06 13:29     ` [ANNOUNCEMENT] Test: lua-5.4.4-1 Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-announce

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