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From: Lewis Hyatt <lhyatt AT princeton DOT edu>
Subject:  Re: Problem compiling cygwin-1.5.24-2
Date:  Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:27:19 -0400
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Olivier Langlois wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I kinda isolated the weird file access problem. The corruption seems to come
> from the setup.exe program as if I download manually
> cygwin-1.5.24-2-src.tar.bz2, unzip and untar it manually, the permissions
> for all files are ok.
> 
> Greetings,
> Olivier Langlois
> http://www.streamtheworld.com
> 
> 
> 

"Corruption" isn't quite accurate. When you download source files, 
setup.exe puts them in /usr/src, which is a managed mount, to insure 
that Windows-incompatible file names can still be preserved. If you copy 
files from /usr/src outside of cygwin, then the filenames will become 
mangled. If you use cygwin's cp to copy them, then there should be no 
problems unless some of the filenames are not legal Windows filenames. 
That's probably what was happening here.

-Lewis


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