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Re: Error in [1.7] involving /netrel/src/cygwin-1.7.0-61/winsup/cygwin/mount.cc
Dave Korn wrote:
> Yes, it's absolutely certainly this. We should probably add a fallback mode
> that treats the same directory as the dll is found in as the root when it's
> not possible to ascend one level, because I suspect this mode of distribution
> won't turn out to be entirely unheard-of.
I disagree. There are a lot of cases where the <bin>/../ construct is
used by cygwin software, especially libtool (ltdl)-based dynamic
loading. Apps of that nature will probably break if installed in a
"flat" directory.
These installations should use an <instdir>/[bin,lib] internal
hierarchy, when used with cygwin-1.7. But see below.
I notice that the pure win32 version of GTK and friends (e.g. GIMP)
install into a pseudo-unix tree for precisely this reason, and cygwin
isn't involved there at all:
<instdir>/bin/<binaries>
<instdir>/share/<stuff>
<instdir>/lib/
etc.
However...
When did we start catering to 3PPs?
--
Chuck
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