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RE: File name length
cygwin-owner@cygwin.com wrote on 27 March 2008 19:31:
> Troy Bull wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> > > Troy Bull wrote:
> > > > Greetings
> > > >
> > > > Over the last few days I have ran into the error where a filename
> > > is > too long for cygwin. I know this has been discussed does
> > > anyone have > a timeline for when this might get changed?
> > >
> > > It will be changed for the 1.7.x series. You can experiment with the
> > > snapshots <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/> if you like. There are no
> > > firm timeline for the release yet.
> > >
> >
> > this looks interesting and I am glad to give it a try. That being
> > said, how do i use it, just replace my current cygwin1.dll with the
> > one I download from this snapshot page?
>
> Yes, if you just want to use it. If you want to build things against
> this, then you need the larger set of files. Make sure you've stopped
> all Cygwin apps (including services) before doing the replace.
IIRC there's a FAQ entry on this. Hang on, I'll look it up. Ah, here we
are:
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.snapshots
cheers,
DaveK
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