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Re: [RFU] mintty-0.9.2-2


On 4 November 2010 06:59, Andy Koppe wrote:
> Please upload:
>
> wget http://mintty.googlecode.com/files/mintty-0.9.2-2.tar.bz2
> wget http://mintty.googlecode.com/files/mintty-0.9.2-2-src.tar.bz2
>
> Please also delete 0.9.2-1, leaving 0.9.1-1 as previous.
>
> This reinstates the use of mkshortcut's -P option for creating the
> mintty start menu entry in the postinstall script. Passing a
> cygpath-created path didn't work when non-ASCII characters were
> involved, due to mkshortcut's lack of UTF-8 support. Instead, cd to
> /proc to avoid the possibility of mkshortcut being led astray by a
> symlink called cygwin in the root directory. Must fix mkshortcut ...

Please don't upload this actually. The 'cd /proc' trick doesn't work either.

Andy


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