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Re: Native symlinks and setup.exe
That is a good solution indeed, if I just want to get the result I
want, for myself.
But it's just local solution.
On 4 October 2016 at 09:57, Vlado <v.99cygwin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3.10.2016 23:15, Gene Pavlovsky wrote:
>>
>> How about this kind of modification for the setup program: extract tar
>> archives into temp dir, after that search that temp dir for symlinks,
>
>
> Hi, Gene.
>
> Maybe You can consider to write and run simple script:
> - find all links (find -type l)
> - read target of link (readlink)
> - remove link (rm)
> - re-create link (ln -s)
> The ln -s should honor CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native and every link should be as
> You want.
>
> Vlado
>
>
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