Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:58:27 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.2.0-1 (Attn: zsh maintainer) Message-ID: <20040330005827.GB4456@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20040326150928.0CD6C400140@redhat.com> <22ag60ps55ncebbc9dm2u1lele15os5mpp@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 02:40:23PM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote: >On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Peter A. Castro wrote: > >> On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> > On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, zzapper wrote: >> > > On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:40:59 +0100, wrote: >> > > >On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:09:28 -0500 (EST), wrote: >> > > > >> > > >>An updated version of zsh (zsh-4.2.0-1) has been released and should be >> > > >>at a mirror near you real soon. >> > > >> >> > > >Hi I saw zsh 4.2.0 download this morning when I ran my daily setup >> > > >however (having reset my PC as requested) >> > > > >> > > >zsh --version >> > > >zsh 4.1.1 (i686-pc-cygwin) >> > > > >> > > >>whence zsh >> > > >/usr/bin/zsh >> > > > >> > > I had to rename zsh-4.2.0.exe to zsh.exe myself (is that >> > > normal/correct?) >> > > >> > > zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh) >> > >> > Sounds like a packaging bug. The archive contains "/usr/bin/zsh.exe" as a >> > symbolic link to "/usr/bin/zsh-4.2.0.exe". This will cause zsh to not >> > work from batch files and shortcuts (!). > >(I'm tired) I just noticed, it's not a symlink, its a hardlink. As such, >it'll materialize as if it was a real file in the filesystems and native >Windows programs will see it as a normal file, not a link. Unfortunately, setup.exe doesn't recognize hard links, AFAIK. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/