From: Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>
To: Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: shared lib+symlinks patch for cygwin
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:10:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <485E08F7.ADE2290C@dessent.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6910a60806220056i1dda7f4elb4e5c69cdeea3cf9@mail.gmail.com
Reini Urban wrote:
> esp. on cygwin where file hardlinks do not work as on linux.
> old bindir 5.8MB, new 2.7MB
Hard links work just fine on Cygwin, assuming the underlying volume is
NTFS. What you probably mean to say is that the Cygwin setup.exe
program won't create hardlinks from the tarball when installing binary
packages. But this could be worked around by creating the links with
'ln' in a postinstall script. Then NTFS users would get the space
savings and FAT users would get copies.
Brian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-22 8:10 UTC|newest]
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2008-06-22 7:56 shared lib+symlinks patch for cygwin Reini Urban
2008-06-22 8:10 ` Brian Dessent [this message]
2008-06-22 8:19 ` Reini Urban
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