Latest 64 bit test stuff on sourceware

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb 17 08:51, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 2/17/2013 4:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Feb 16 23:17, Peter Rosin wrote:
> >>1. base-cygwin...tar.xz puts its binaries in /bin, but gcc
> >>et al expects to be in /usr/bin (I think, at least that was
> >>the case in the previous version of that tarball). The other
> >>tarballs but their binaries in /usr/bin. The default mounts:
> >>[...]
> >>This issue feels like it's something I've misunderstood.
> >
> >The base package installs symlinks usr/bin -> ../bin and usr/lib ->
> >../lib.  This was supposed to solve the problem since when unpacking the
> >other packages, the 32 bit tar finds the symlinks and installs
> >everything usr/bin to bin and everything usr/lib to lib, as expected.
> >
> >Are you saying that didn't work?
> 
> It didn't work for me either.  Unpacking the base package creates
> the symlinks, but unpacking the remaining packages blows them away.
> I had to move everything from /usr/bin to /bin and from /usr/lib to
> /lib and then recreate the symlinks.

  Try `tar xJkf <archive>'

Corinna

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