2008/6/22 Brian Dessent <brian@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Reini Urban wrote: > >> esp. on cygwin where file hardlinks do not work as on linux. >> old bindir 5.8MB, new 2.7MB > > Hard links work just fine on Cygwin, assuming the underlying volume is > NTFS. And you have Administrator rights, yes. On cygwin you can install packages without having root perms. > What you probably mean to say is that the Cygwin setup.exe > program won't create hardlinks from the tarball when installing binary > packages. But this could be worked around by creating the links with > 'ln' in a postinstall script. Then NTFS users would get the space > savings and FAT users would get copies. Good. So just postinstall.sh has to be fixed. Anyway, I like the symlink approach to be fixed also. -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
