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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 11:44:41 +0200
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Subject: Re: Forcing setup.exe not to create WSL symlinks
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From: Michael Wild via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 11:02 AM Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Aug 27 07:48, Michael Wild via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 10:57 PM Jon Turney wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > It turns out to be the case that setup doesn't propagate the CYGWIN
> > > environment variable into the environment for scripts it runs, so
> > > setting that isn't going to make any difference.  That should probably
> > > be considered a bug.
> > >
> > > However, even if that's fixed, there's no value for winsymlinks in
> > > CYGWIN env var to specify the behaviour of Cygwin 3.1.4 and previous
> > > (i.e. always create traditional symlinks, don't use WSL symlink reparse
> > > points)
> > >
> >
> > Thanks Jon for the elaboration. Isn't winsymlinks=lnk supposed to do this
> > per the documentation? Could Corinna be convinced to include an option
> > where this can be done? To be honest, my hopes are greater to get this
> > worked-around in a useful timeframe from the Cygwin side than getting the
> > proper fix into Docker.
>
> Isn't it sufficient to fix setup so you can create lnk-style symlinks in
> your scenario?  The CYGWIN env variable and the number of options is
> such a mess.
>
>
> Corinna
>

I am right now modifying setup to not sanitize CYGWIN away when invoking
the post-install scripts and then will report back.

Michael
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