From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25479 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2013 00:28:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 25470 invoked by uid 89); 1 Aug 2013 00:28:26 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KHOP_THREADED,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Received: from Unknown (HELO etr-usa.com) (130.94.180.135) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 00:28:26 +0000 Received: (qmail 21036 invoked by uid 13447); 1 Aug 2013 00:28:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [172.20.0.42]) ([107.4.26.51]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.180.135 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 1 Aug 2013 00:28:18 -0000 Message-ID: <51F9ABA0.3090205@etr-usa.com> Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 00:28:00 -0000 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin-L Subject: Re: having 1 set of non-bin files w/separate {bin,lib}[32/64)? (was Re: please update the supported Cygwin package list ...) References: <51F34FA0.50300@gmail.com> <51F35E4A.4040207@gmail.com> <51F368C4.5030309@etr-usa.com> <51F9A3BE.4020907@tlinx.org> In-Reply-To: <51F9A3BE.4020907@tlinx.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-08/txt/msg00000.txt.bz2 On 7/31/2013 17:54, Linda Walsh wrote: > Warren Young wrote: >> >> Just to emphasize: if both 32- and 64-bit Cygwin bin dirs are in your >> PATH at the same time, you will get complaints in the terminal window > ------ > Ok, but would it be desirable (or wouldn't it be) > to have only 1 /etc, /var, /home? dir, Sure. But what's stopping you from doing that today? Symlinks work just fine across the /cygdrive boundary separating your Cygwins. I keep very little in /home, mainly just dot files and symlinks into /cygdrive/c/Users/mylogin. The actual data I keep under c:\Users. That is, ~mylogin/Documents is a symlink to My Documents, etc. Similar for Pictures, Downloads, AppData, ... I have a bunch of scripts I've written in ~/bin, but those get checked into a local Subversion repository, so I can keep those updated across Cygwins easily enough. Ditto with compiled programs I've written: just check out and rebuild on the other Cygwin when they change. > then maybe in your bashrc have > it do a cygmount or create a softlinke from /bin32 -> /bin or /bin64->/bin > (and same for lib)? You can't just merge the two bin/lib dirs. The executable names conflict. My solution involving a "cygwin2.dll" is the only solution I see. And again, it's packed with potential pain. > I don't think it will turn out well to try to have people > maintain 2 sets of configuration files... People have been inventing new ways to keep /etc synchronized for decades. Most relevant to Cygwin today are symlinks, etckeeper, Puppet/Chef/Cfengine, YourFavoriteVCS... -- 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