On 3/4/2011 5:13 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 4 05:03, Rafael Kitover wrote: >> On 3/4/2011 4:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Mar 4 05:09, Andy Koppe wrote: >>>> On 2 March 2011 13:08, EXCOFFIER Denis wrote: >>>>> P.S.: By the way, what is the normal way to install snapshots? It is >>>>> easy to replace cygwin1.dll (keeping around the working one), but in order >>>>> to test the cygwin1 package in full (eg to check within stdio.h whether >>>>> vsnprintf is included under __STRICT_ANSI__ or not)? >>>> >>>> You should usually install the cygwin-inst-*.tar.bz2 tarball >>>> containing all the relevant headers and tools along with the DLL. >>>> >>>> There's a FAQ entry describing how to install it at >>>> http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.snapshots. >> ... >> >> I was just shutting everything down, going to c:\cygwin and untarring >> from msysGit. >> >> But apparently that's not correct because now I have stuff in >> C:\cygwin\usr\bin . >> >> Feature request: would it be possible to make the -inst snapshots not >> depend on the mounts so you could just untar them from cmd/winrar/7zip/msys? > > You could also just create two junction points > > C:/cygwin/usr/bin -> C:/cygwin/bin > C:/cygwin/usr/lib -> C:/cygwin/lib
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