Re: Strange paths in NTFS reparse points created by Cygwin Setup for e.g. TTF fonts

2020-11-08 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/11/08 06:40, Michael Soegtrop wrote: What I don't understand is why it does work sometimes and sometimes not. I always use the same scripts to install and remove cygwin on the same machines and then do pretty much the same thing with this cygwin (build our open source software) befor

Re: Strange paths in NTFS reparse points created by Cygwin Setup for e.g. TTF fonts

2020-11-08 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 11/8/2020 9:40 AM, Michael Soegtrop wrote: Why shouldn't I be able to remove symlinks with rm -rf from within a cygwin? As far as I understand the standard behavior of "rm" is to remove the symlink and not its target. What I do when I remove a cygwin installation in our CI is an "rm -rf" fro

Re: Strange paths in NTFS reparse points created by Cygwin Setup for e.g. TTF fonts

2020-11-08 Thread Michael Soegtrop via Cygwin
Hi Ken, L A Walsh, > But you can change this if you don't like it, as I said in my reply to your earlier message about this: I don't know if I like it yet - I am still in the process of understanding what is going on. I maintain the Windows build of a large open source project and we also

[ANNOUNCEMENT] libb2 0.98.1-1

2020-11-08 Thread Daisuke Fujimura via Cygwin-announce
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * libb2_1-0.98.1-1 * libb2-devel-0.98.1-1 C library providing BLAKE2b, BLAKE2s, BLAKE2bp, BLAKE2sp -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:ht