On 2021-11-18 09:47, Fergus Daly wrote:
Sorry Brian: missed yours when replying to Andrey.
Brian said:
I can't find anything anywhere on my system or the web suggesting a
source for that. Something you or some script did on your system?
How did you find the links in your 2014 "Missing links" post: from
cygcheck -c|-s? What were the associated packages?
https://cygwin.com/legacy-ml/cygwin/2014-07/msg00289.html
I found the weird / missing links through a much less cerebral approach than
that suggested by you, I'm afraid.
As follows:
I usually have more than one Cygwin setup (e.g one on a drive on PC1, one on a
drive on PC2, one on a stick, ..).
If I compare any two (that are intended to be identical) using
$ diff -rq /setup1 /setup2 > diffs.1 2> diffs.2
then apart from unimportant binary-file-by-binary-file byte differences
occurring during installation (and some
important differences worth attention) identified in the file diffs.1, there
are often discrepancies, mis-labelling,
and other glitches worth investigating and / or needing correction to be found
in the file diffs.2.
(I had forgotten that the particular weirdness
/usr/share/terminfo/terminfo -> /usr/share/terminfo/
had a history - and such a long one.)
Just rm it!
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