From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 463 invoked by alias); 3 Aug 2013 15:48:14 -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 447 invoked by uid 89); 3 Aug 2013 15:48:14 -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-qa0-f45.google.com) (209.85.216.45) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Sat, 03 Aug 2013 15:48:13 +0000 Received: by mail-qa0-f45.google.com with SMTP id l18so218540qak.11 for ; Sat, 03 Aug 2013 08:48:05 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.49.94.7 with SMTP id cy7mr15422667qeb.90.1375544885418; Sat, 03 Aug 2013 08:48:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.53.101 with HTTP; Sat, 3 Aug 2013 08:48:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <51FCEA73.7030903@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> Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 15:48:00 -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/msg00062.txt.bz2 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. 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. However you the user have a choice of where to put things. Frankly, I would use /cygwin and /cygwin32 to segregate similar to what MS did for Windows but that is just me. The one thing with Cygwin you need to be careful of is that 32bit binaries need the 32bit DLL and mixing and matching may cause you no end of grief. -- 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