> On Mar 28, 2019, at 1:33 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > Am 28.03.2019 um 19:16 schrieb Vince Rice: >>> On Mar 28, 2019, at 1:09 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: >>> >>>> A potential solution is, add another user to your system named cygwin. >>>> When you build you packages use the cygwin user. The debug information >>>> will reference your cygwin user, and not your real user account. >>> Thanks for the suggestion, but there are other solutions meanwhile. Also, >>> you would have >>> to remember to switch user everytime, which may take a while, and it's not >>> even possible >>> to create user accounts on everybody's machine. >> You're the only one that needs to remember, and it's only your machine that >> would need the >> the user account. Other people building the package don't have the same … >> requirements … >> you do. They're not distributing what they build. They would just use the >> cygport and be done >> with it. >> >> (Not selling the solution as I have no opinion on it, just pointing out that >> neither of those >> objections are really a problem.) > What I wanted to point out with my last objection is that some people may not > be able to create an account as they like, in an enterprise environment.
And what I was pointing out is that nobody but you needs to. This whole thread is about trying to solve *your* problem, not someone else's. As I said, if I built mintty, I would just use cygport and be done with it. I don't care about user information, because I'm not distributing the package. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple