On Aug 27 07:48, Michael Wild via Cygwin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 10:57 PM Jon Turney wrote: > > > > > It turns out to be the case that setup doesn't propagate the CYGWIN > > environment variable into the environment for scripts it runs, so > > setting that isn't going to make any difference. That should probably > > be considered a bug. > > > > However, even if that's fixed, there's no value for winsymlinks in > > CYGWIN env var to specify the behaviour of Cygwin 3.1.4 and previous > > (i.e. always create traditional symlinks, don't use WSL symlink reparse > > points) > > > > Thanks Jon for the elaboration. Isn't winsymlinks=lnk supposed to do this > per the documentation? Could Corinna be convinced to include an option > where this can be done? To be honest, my hopes are greater to get this > worked-around in a useful timeframe from the Cygwin side than getting the > proper fix into Docker.
Isn't it sufficient to fix setup so you can create lnk-style symlinks in your scenario? The CYGWIN env variable and the number of options is such a mess. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
