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Re: file not working on executables?
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
You should not mount the whole Cygwin tree in textmode
Totally agree. But we need to do a "text mode install" from setup.exe
because so many of the tools we use are non-Cygwin tools, and "cvs" does
nasty (or at least unattractive) things if the mount is binmode, and the
text file contains "^M"s. But this really applies only to the cygdrive
mounts (since that's where the affected files live).
What would be nice is if setup *always* mounted / and /usr/lib in
binmode, and /usr/bin in "mount -x" mode, and only honored the "text
mode" in the installer screen for the cygdrive mounts.
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