From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Dessent Subject: Re: shared lib+symlinks patch for cygwin Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:10:31 -0700 Organization: My own little world... Message-ID: <485E08F7.ADE2290C@dessent.net> References: <6910a60806220056i1dda7f4elb4e5c69cdeea3cf9@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: git@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Reini Urban X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jun 22 10:10:21 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KAKeM-0005GP-RY for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:10:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751031AbYFVIIk (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:08:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750997AbYFVIIi (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:08:38 -0400 Received: from dessent.net ([69.60.119.225]:45451 "EHLO dessent.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750942AbYFVIIh (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:08:37 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dessent.net) by dessent.net with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KAKch-00040y-LS; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:08:31 +0000 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,en-US Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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