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Re: grace broken installation
- From: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:49:14 +0000
- Subject: Re: grace broken installation
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On 1/28/2020 1:38 AM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> Links should only be applied during build processes to allow building and
> testing to complete successfully.
> Build link types may not be compatible with tar or the target file system and
> should not be included in packages for distribution e.g. they may only work on
> systems configured for WSL and with WSL installed.
> Distributed package links should be generated during post-install processing and
> should fall back to file copies if links are unsupported on the target file system.
Many Cygwin packages contain symlinks that are not generated during
post-install. setup handles them just fine.
Ken
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