From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6780 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2013 03:54:21 -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 6765 invoked by uid 89); 4 Aug 2013 03:54:20 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,RDNS_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from Unknown (HELO mail-qe0-f45.google.com) (209.85.128.45) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Sun, 04 Aug 2013 03:54:19 +0000 Received: by mail-qe0-f45.google.com with SMTP id x7so1123744qeu.18 for ; Sat, 03 Aug 2013 20:54:12 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.49.109.72 with SMTP id hq8mr18235597qeb.38.1375588451787; Sat, 03 Aug 2013 20:54:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.53.101 with HTTP; Sat, 3 Aug 2013 20:54:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <51FDBA2B.8020102@tlinx.org> 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> <51FDBA2B.8020102@tlinx.org> Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 03:54:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: having 1 set of non-bin files w/separate {bin,lib}[32/64)? (was Re: please update the supported Cygwin package list ...) From: Earnie Boyd To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-SW-Source: 2013-08/txt/msg00068.txt.bz2 On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > Earnie Boyd wrote: >> >> 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? You can't you have to segregate the environments. You don't want to touch Windows system directories even to put Windows symlinks. You have two differing systems which can be controlled from the Desktop via iconed shortcuts that starts one or the other. Windows is smart enough to know when you have a 64bit executable and when you don't. However, you don't want to clash the Cygwin runtime DLL (this is true of two Cygwin DLL with the same bitness as well) but you may get away with forking a 32bit Cygwin process from a 64bit Cygwin process as long as the two environments are autonomous. But I wouldn't count on it not giving issues. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- 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