On Jun 24 19:52, Achim Gratz wrote: > > May I suggest that this sort of link (and the similar one in > cygwinports) has potential to break mirror scripts in bad ways? Not > quite as bad, but linking x86_64 -> 64bit also results in duplicates > that aren't serving a good purpose.
The x86 symlink break the "Install from directory" function of setup.exe. It runs into some endless loop. If I remove the symlinks it works as usual. I don't know why it does that at all. It has no business reading these symlinks. If nobody beats me to it, I'll investigate next week. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
