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On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 03:28:07PM -0600, Parker, Ron wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Glenn Spell [mailto:glenn AT gs DOT fay DOT nc DOT us] >> Seems to me that the bootstrapping and build process could remain >> the same except for one final step of moving or copying a few agreed >> upon executables from /usr/bin to /bin. I'm thinking that if we copy >> instead of move then then the mount/symlinks issues will be simpler. > ><snip> > >With the usual caveat of complicating updating to new versions of these >files. (Not saying one is worse than the other, merely a trade off.) As I've stated before, my preference would be for something that would be very close to what you'd get if you did a 'configure; make; make install' in the top level of a cygwin source installation. Moving files around or forcing files into different directories does not seem like the right approach to me. cgf
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