Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: emacs install problem From: Robert Collins To: Gareth Pearce Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-psGhAomEtJTbVN1uM0S/" Date: 14 Aug 2002 13:41:21 +1000 Message-Id: <1029296482.11510.181.camel@lifelesswks> Mime-Version: 1.0 --=-psGhAomEtJTbVN1uM0S/ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 13:38, Gareth Pearce wrote: >=20 >=20 >=20 > >Eh? > > > >All my file systems are NTFS and hence support hard links. > > > >But I really don't see what that's got to do with the fact that most, if= =20 > >not all of Emacs did not install on my system. >=20 > putting hard links in a cygwin distribution package is a bad idea all the= =20 > same I would think (especially for win9x'ers). Possibly could break thin= gs=20 > in unexpected ways. Hard links *should* be just fine. setup should make copies of files that are hardlinks. Rob --=-psGhAomEtJTbVN1uM0S/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA9WdFgI5+kQ8LJcoIRAoqRAKDV1gOgig2sfDAuCHWRAJGoHnCn1wCfSQfe nwRA0syp8XNvO4xZuK37/Y8= =wlZ/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-psGhAomEtJTbVN1uM0S/--