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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Copy setup.exe to /bin/cygwin-setup.exe
On 2/3/2011 8:13 AM, Reini Urban wrote:
> 2011/2/3 Corinna Vinschen:
>> On Feb 2 23:24, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>> Make a copy of setup.exe as /bin/cygwin-setup.exe.
>>>
>>> This enables a few useful things:
>>> - Register that copy of setup.exe with Add/Remove programs
>
> Shouldn't we start to seperate pure mingw executables from cygwin somewhen?
No. There's only, like, three of them. setup, cygcheck, and strace.
> Then we could use the faster cygexec mount settings,
> and add /mingw/bin or /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin to PATH
Definitely NOT /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin. That is for cygwin binaries
associated with a mingw-target cross compiler. (And frankly, /mingw/bin
is where I have mounted my mingw.org installation...)
--
Chuck