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Re: base-files-mketc.sh
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:12:49 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: base-files-mketc.sh
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> At 12:29 PM 2/3/2003 -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >> What else do you think of?
> >
> >Hmm, I'm not sure. You may be right for the moment (on a new install, in
> >any case). However, any postinstall script using the `cygpath -u ...`
> >syntax would have that problem, and who can guarantee that no others will
> >be added in the future?
>
> Igor,
>
> I don't understand your cygpath -u comment. It seems to behave correctly
> no matter what I do.
> [snip]
What I meant was that if any postinstall script created symlinks to the
result returned by `cygpath -u ...`, those symlinks would be broken when
the cygdrive prefix is changed.
Igor
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