From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Reini Urban" Subject: Re: shared lib+symlinks patch for cygwin Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:19:19 +0200 Message-ID: <6910a60806220119g2a515f44qdfd664459923fc70@mail.gmail.com> References: <6910a60806220056i1dda7f4elb4e5c69cdeea3cf9@mail.gmail.com> <485E08F7.ADE2290C@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jun 22 10:20:32 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 1KAKoJ-0007Dr-Ln for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:20:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752712AbYFVITi (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:19:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752709AbYFVITi (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:19:38 -0400 Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.188]:52554 "EHLO fk-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752673AbYFVITV (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:19:21 -0400 Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 18so1875737fkq.5 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:19:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=PBexh6uxebo0JIe+UfBmOXDNHk8lg+vO1zuEneTGoB4=; b=MDLwC5uGyY91uIdPgolT7ADFeRehw6RXqfkj70tSDq80zuPFaWwbIoTy6ewJezOiLC 8Xw9O9wKE0LfKjV20s5YyQTizQ6dXggtRWp55Cki6ofLmCl50/KyAUZSgVR6v4OjpCbd 2IKd89cAJOdoevF/tJ0YnQNfvYTVF6FawoKIg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=l5nvO6WnRas88QtWqEKxLPu1bFesZAR1HJ/e5p50GGirxKijrNwKqGHKUF2jD4ekH4 R+0Q4UTlE41MB6we0H+gzTSnEx5CKdxNdK6lwYtDIjzfUhlwjerAlzsrZq253omGXfsv G69MsVGmrDz31pQ5fCCbDQmlIXmO/yOf5FDNU= Received: by 10.82.124.10 with SMTP id w10mr331113buc.18.1214122759332; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:19:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.179.17 with HTTP; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:19:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <485E08F7.ADE2290C@dessent.net> Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: c49408002b456837 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 2008/6/22 Brian Dessent : > 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/