From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21494 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2013 02:19:37 -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 21441 invoked by uid 89); 4 Aug 2013 02:19:34 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,KHOP_THREADED,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Received: from Unknown (HELO Ishtar.tlinx.org) (173.164.175.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Sun, 04 Aug 2013 02:19:33 +0000 Received: from [192.168.4.12] (Athenae [192.168.4.12]) by Ishtar.tlinx.org (8.14.7/8.14.4/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id r742JNcI034563 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2013 19:19:25 -0700 Message-ID: <51FDBA2B.8020102@tlinx.org> Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 02:19:00 -0000 From: Linda Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com 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> <51F9ABA0.3090205@etr-usa.com> <51FCEA73.7030903@tlinx.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-08/txt/msg00065.txt.bz2 Earnie Boyd wrote: > On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: > > Hello Linda, > >> It seems to be the only reliable 32-bit redirection -- and MS chose to put >> it in the /windows dir... so they must want customers to put anything >> needing >> that feature in that dir...right?? ;-) Oi... > Absolutely not what MS intended for the /windows directory. That is > the OS directory and only MS installations should use it. ---- Sorry, I assume you did catch the irony. > > The /"Program Files" (64bit) and /"Program Files (x86)" (32bit) > directories are where MS directs developers to put their binaries. > However we don't like spaces in path names so this isn't a good > location. --- Which is why you create /prog->one /prog{32,64}->point to the other as mklink /d symlinks in the root of the fs. > > However you the user have a choice of where to put things. Frankly, I > would use /cygwin and /cygwin32 ---- And how does that get you the autoredirection I suggested with the links in Windows/syswow64 and windows/system32? -- 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