bi-arch cygwin (was Re: /usr/local/bin symbolic link disappears every time cyg setup is run)

2014-09-12 Thread Linda Walsh
Dat Head wrote: I have a symlink from /usr/local/bin to /3TB-external/bin/CYGWIN to keep architecture independent bin files on an external drive for portability. I've tried similar and wasn't able to convince anyone (my track record on being convincing is significantly lamer than

Re: /usr/local/bin symbolic link disappears every time cyg setup is run

2014-09-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Dat Head writes: I have a symlink from /usr/local/bin to /3TB-external/bin/CYGWIN to keep architecture independent bin files on an external drive for portability. Just create a mount in /etc/fstab and keep the tree under the mount point empty. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305

Re: /usr/local/bin symbolic link disappears every time cyg setup is run

2014-09-04 Thread Kurt Franke
Larry Hall (Cygwin reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin.com writes: On 09/03/2014 05:19 PM, Dat Head wrote: I have a symlink from /usr/local/bin to /3TB-external/bin/CYGWIN to keep architecture independent bin files on an external drive for portability. every time I run cyg setup.exe it

/usr/local/bin symbolic link disappears every time cyg setup is run

2014-09-03 Thread Dat Head
I have a symlink from /usr/local/bin to /3TB-external/bin/CYGWIN to keep architecture independent bin files on an external drive for portability. every time I run cyg setup.exe it removes the symlink and creates an empty /usr/local/bin directory - is it really supposed to do that? are there some

Re: /usr/local/bin symbolic link disappears every time cyg setup is run

2014-09-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 09/03/2014 05:19 PM, Dat Head wrote: I have a symlink from /usr/local/bin to /3TB-external/bin/CYGWIN to keep architecture independent bin files on an external drive for portability. every time I run cyg setup.exe it removes the symlink and creates an empty /usr/local/bin directory - is it