* Gene Pavlovsky (Mon, 3 Oct 2016 00:46:54 +0300) > > So, when installing, the type of symlinks doesn't honor the CYGWIN > option since they are just unpacked by tar as is. > > The question I'm proposing now - should `tar` be modified to honor the > CYGWIN option and automatically convert symlinks when extracting, if > necessary?
Tar's task is to unpack what's in the archive. So converting is out of question. You can ask the maintainer of the affected packages to create the symlinks in the postinstall script. Thorsten -- 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
