Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/10/11/14:44:15
On Oct 11 18:25, Eric Blake wrote:
> > On Oct 11 12:52, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> > > While building a ruby module (extconf.rb method) with ruby-1.8.3,
> > > INSTALL is defined as "/usr/bin/ginstall -c". There's no ginstall on
> > > Cygwin, just install.
>
> > On my machine I had a ginstall for some reason and I even don't know
> > anymore where it came from.
>
> coreutils internally builds ginstall.exe, then installs it to
> install.exe (otherwise, imagine the confusion if you type
> make install, but it builds the one binary instead of installing
> everything in coreutils). Should I provide a new coreutils
> release that provides g<name> variants of the various
> coreutils as links to the <name> version, so that cygwin
> would then indeed have a ginstall in addition to install?
I don't think this small glitch in my setup justifies solving the
problem with the big hammer ;-)
Corinna
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