On 3/4/2011 10:11 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 05:03:53AM -0500, Rafael Kitover wrote: >> I was just shutting everything down, going to c:\cygwin and untarring >>from msysGit. > > I don't understand why that would be if you're using a version of > Cygwin's tar.
He's not. He's using an msys tar from (yet another) fork of the mingw.org MSYS project -- probably in an attempt to avoid the "cygwin1.dll is in use" problem. However, if it's not clear by now: this is a REALLY BAD idea... >> But apparently that's not correct because now I have stuff in >> C:\cygwin\usr\bin . ...and that's why. msys has its own definition of "/usr", doesn't respect cygwin's mounts OR symlinks, and msys 'tar -x' won't even CREATE symlinks -- symlink-to-files are faked using hardlinks, and symlink-to-dirs are faked by creating the directory, and recursively "symlinking" (e.g. hardlinks) the contents. Don't do this. -- Chuck -- 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
