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Subject: Re: Native symlinks and setup.exe
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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


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