On Oct 11 18:25, Eric Blake wrote: > > On Oct 11 12:52, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > > > While building a ruby module (extconf.rb method) with ruby-1.8.3, > > > INSTALL is defined as "/usr/bin/ginstall -c". There's no ginstall on > > > Cygwin, just install. > > > On my machine I had a ginstall for some reason and I even don't know > > anymore where it came from. > > coreutils internally builds ginstall.exe, then installs it to > install.exe (otherwise, imagine the confusion if you type > make install, but it builds the one binary instead of installing > everything in coreutils). Should I provide a new coreutils > release that provides g<name> variants of the various > coreutils as links to the <name> version, so that cygwin > would then indeed have a ginstall in addition to install?
I don't think this small glitch in my setup justifies solving the problem with the big hammer ;-) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
