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Re: cygwin 1.7: why there is a directory E/cygwin/dev in the tree of cygwin ?
- From: Cliff Hones <cliff at hones dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:51:22 +0100
- Subject: Re: cygwin 1.7: why there is a directory E/cygwin/dev in the tree of cygwin ?
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Eric Blake wrote:
> [reviving an old thread, relevant to today's current bash postinstall
> failures]
> ...
> I'm building a new bash package now that should fix all this mess, by
> using the same means as 000-cygwin-post-install.sh to populate necessary
> entries into /dev.
Splendid! Just for the record, I noticed this over a year ago:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00944.html
So, proof that we don't need a bug tracker - mailing lists work fine!
The change to check postinstall exit codes is likely to throw up
a few more buglets yet, but looks like it will be well worth
the pain.
[Now, I'm just waiting for something completely different:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-12/msg00298.html ]
-- Cliff
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