X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=Idw8cPfaDTySOGhn n2vx5hp3ek4GHnVgK1OxzH09jUJvzUh9CUb6CHJ71DtdsotMrpqn2zIeM4nKVXic PQNLRyyrWPDib7nPvdWkRf+GrskRBHhKPkqKmaOvQE9F1aXXYzq4cxc6tGmIFFp9 2lE5HwqTu4decNtAt8DUDrBW8rY= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=DTXigRRx/kehLLugyWzckf W4SdM=; b=PV1IvY8XBGVRWnoA1lz6sUmnA8/qrBPvAOW82UIWt+Ix6jw0y5NQQD WSeS2WROcW61bKE2BIJz+Nr6ba2WrRpmtbEv+y6g4ZWOcFPbfd76DnF87YPxP/W0 y/zhOroXhR43C/1g63/Mubf3rMgBG41X1GLgdDoZrim/vMNsau6bw= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*f:CAPTiy3NzXWSv8, H*i:CAPTiy3NzXWSv8, H*f:sk:S1aSyQc, H*f:kazpeXYx9EB18nQ X-HELO: mail-wm0-f49.google.com X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id :disposition-notification-to:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=W5kTG+fhe6emC03vlaFLVrZdyYeR82LX/gpQuMXQd3k=; b=Ykl+Hu6PBQTiEendkDByOMjWTSbj/f07P3MQGmpcCtutyhlLK85WdOw1FzpsAE3AFe B0K29hY/CcO47b1hqid+3GDSm++Tqrgdz9RAYErzUT/q5WGnXFh1dnJBMQrWmFZJo97X 0XvS5e0iIPfsEQju8Txx28aJtVVb95MM69CGJBvYORflXKUlmJSjx3P0muYsjTA1GmwG 4gYyxOJRNBMbiUV9PiXd+6ijM4NoXbUU8HVJzwnPJDReLpelPElqcO69Uug1tLpIg/63 JSEO2BnyuDG2/K1WFSmPrlIA5xRiK+8bMaP8Teb0BYqzW5jeTGiinfqn0A6nps9DUNvj 5ChQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AA6/9RkVhQ9zQYf5qIMeDexP3o+ZAW+zIxpBaDqvh5T5E+uFlxWNV5LJIE4pxQU68nueEw== X-Received: by 10.28.199.204 with SMTP id x195mr14499161wmf.41.1475564238803; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 23:57:18 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Native symlinks and setup.exe To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: From: Vlado Message-ID: Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 08:57:16 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 3.10.2016 23:15, Gene Pavlovsky wrote: > How about this kind of modification for the setup program: extract tar > archives into temp dir, after that search that temp dir for symlinks, Hi, Gene. Maybe You can consider to write and run simple script: - find all links (find -type l) - read target of link (readlink) - remove link (rm) - re-create link (ln -s) The ln -s should honor CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native and every link should be as You want. Vlado -- 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