x86/ -> ./ symlink

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul  2 11:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul  2 11:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Jul  1 21:14, Achim Gratz wrote:
> > > Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > > >> The change itself breaks a few cases that maybe aren't supported,
> > > >> but nevertheless worked for quite some time.
> > > >
> > > > What cases?
> > > 
> > > I have abandoned this directory layout some time ago, but I was doing
> > > things like
> > > 
> > > …/mirror/cygwin/
> > > …/mirror/cygport/
> > > …/local/patch/
> > > …/local/packages/
> > > 
> > > with normally a single setup.ini in each subtree (sometimes a few levels
> > > down) and it would integrate all the setup.ini it found depending on
> > > where I'd start setup.exe or what I told it was the local directory.
> > > I'm still using a similar layout for keeping track of the mirrors and my
> > > local packages, but I copy the package files and re-write setup.ini to
> > > reference them in a single tree somewhere else.
> > 
> > That should still work if you move the setup.ini files in a x86 or
> > x86_64 subdir.
> > 
> > Having said that, I could also change setup so that any setup.ini file
> > which is not under a $target subdir is still recognized, but only when
> > trying to install a 32 bit Cygwin.  This should make the code backward
> > compatible with existing layouts.
> 
> Easier said than done.  If I change the code to ignore the subdir name
> on 32 bit installs, then it will pick up 64 bit setup.ini files, too.
> 
> Bad, bad, bad.
> 
> Given that, I really think the best way to handle this is to use
> different ini file names:
> 
>   setup-x86.ini     -> 32 bit
>   setup-x86_64.ini  -> 64 bit
>   setup.ini         -> allow with 32 bit install for backward compat.

Additional advantage for installing from local dir:  We can restrict
the recursive search for the ini file to one level, instead of two.


Corinna

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