From: "Reini Urban" <rurban@x-ray.at>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: shared lib+symlinks patch for cygwin
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:19:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6910a60806220119g2a515f44qdfd664459923fc70@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <485E08F7.ADE2290C@dessent.net>
2008/6/22 Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>:
> 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.
And you have Administrator rights, yes. On cygwin you can install packages
without having root perms.
> 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.
Good. So just postinstall.sh has to be fixed.
Anyway, I like the symlink approach to be fixed also.
--
Reini Urban
http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/
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2008-06-22 7:56 shared lib+symlinks patch for cygwin Reini Urban
2008-06-22 8:10 ` Brian Dessent
2008-06-22 8:19 ` Reini Urban [this message]
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