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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Copy setup.exe to /bin/cygwin-setup.exe
2011/2/3 Charles Wilson:
> 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.
There's also ldh, cygserver, cyglsa.dll
But installed into /usr/bin prohibits cygexec on /usr/bin,
which slows down all cygwin process starts a tiny bit.
>> 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...)
Indeed. But I always use mingw/msys in a msys bash, not in my cygwin bash.
Is it kosher to mix?
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Reini Urban