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On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 09:15:36AM -0700, friedman_hill ernest j wrote: >I think Tony Arnold wrote: >[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] >>> > > mount -f -s -b e:/cygwin / >> > > > mount -f -s -b e:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin >> > > > mount -f -s -b e:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib >> >> Is there any advantage to mountin /usr/bin and /usr/lib over making these >> soft links to /bin and /lib? I've done the latter and it seems to work OK. >> > >I had wondered about this myself. I like the links better because I >want to have cygnus root at d:/ and I want d:/ mounted as /. Having >cygnus root at some lower directory just makes things vaguely >confusing, IMO. So, feel free to use d:\ as your root. No one is stopping you. This has no bearing on whether you symlink /usr/bin to /bin or use mount. >Anyway, I recently found out why it is done this way: it's because the >setup program can't grok symlinks! When setup untars an installer >tarball, it uses its own built-in untar routines which use Win32 >filesystem calls directly. I'm not 100% sure why its this way, but I >suppose it's so that setup can bootstrap a new installation without >installing the DLL first. You're apparently looking at DJ's work in progress. The setup.exe program on sourceware does understand symlinks. As to why they aren't used, please check the archives. I never anticipated being second-guessed so often on this decision. It's really incredible to see the number of times that this idea has been raised and presented to me as if this was something I would not have thought of. The bottom line is that symlinks do not work on samba mounted directories. Apparently we need a FAQ entry. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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