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Re: base-files-mketc.sh


On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:

> At 12:29 PM 2/3/2003 -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >> What else do you think of?
> >
> >Hmm, I'm not sure.  You may be right for the moment (on a new install, in
> >any case).  However, any postinstall script using the `cygpath -u ...`
> >syntax would have that problem, and who can guarantee that no others will
> >be added in the future?
>
> Igor,
>
> I don't understand your cygpath -u comment. It seems to behave correctly
> no matter what I do.
> [snip]

What I meant was that if any postinstall script created symlinks to the
result returned by `cygpath -u ...`, those symlinks would be broken when
the cygdrive prefix is changed.
	Igor
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