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Re: setup/symlinks/gcc/chown question
On Dec 19 09:37, Karl M wrote:
> Hi All...
>
> I see the broken links on any machine I use. I run as a restricted user,
> except when I am installing or updating software. Here is the way I do the
> initial install (to prevent permissions leaks)...
Well, I still can't reproduce it and I didn't get any hint that somebody
else can reproduce this. I tried chmod -R and chown -R on directories
containing symlinks created by a former setup.exe call and the symlinks
were still symlinks afterwards.
Let's restart with my previous mail:
> >Are you sure you're using Cygwin's chmod/chown? Did you try to run them
> >under strace and see what happens?
Corinna
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