Forcing setup.exe not to create WSL symlinks

[Michael Wild]

Hi Andrey

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 5:20 PM Andrey Repin wrote:

> Greetings, Michael Wild!
>
> > Is there a way to disable WSL symlinks when installing Cygwin with
> > setup.exe? Problem is that Docker on Windows apparently doesn't support
> > them (see https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/41058). I would like to
> use a
> > custom Docker image for GitHub Actions to reproducibly build my packages
> > but am failing to build the base image because of this.
>
> What is the value of your CYGWIN environment variable?
> Do you run setup elevated?
>
>
I tried setting CYGWIN=winsymlinks:lnk but no luck. The docker build
process uses an administrator account inside the container, so yes, it is
elevated.

Michael