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Date: | Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:17:08 -0400 |
From: | Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: Error in [1.7] involving /netrel/src/cygwin-1.7.0-61/winsup/cygwin/mount.cc |
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On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 11:05:40AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >Dave Korn wrote: >> Yes, it's absolutely certainly this. We should probably add a fallback mode >> that treats the same directory as the dll is found in as the root when it's >> not possible to ascend one level, because I suspect this mode of distribution >> won't turn out to be entirely unheard-of. > >I disagree. There are a lot of cases where the <bin>/../ construct is >used by cygwin software, especially libtool (ltdl)-based dynamic >loading. Apps of that nature will probably break if installed in a >"flat" directory. > >These installations should use an <instdir>/[bin,lib] internal >hierarchy, when used with cygwin-1.7. But see below. > >I notice that the pure win32 version of GTK and friends (e.g. GIMP) >install into a pseudo-unix tree for precisely this reason, and cygwin >isn't involved there at all: > <instdir>/bin/<binaries> > <instdir>/share/<stuff> > <instdir>/lib/ > etc. > >However... > >When did we start catering to 3PPs? We didn't but we could issue a better error message. I'll take care of that. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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