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| author | Egor Tensin <Egor.Tensin@gmail.com> | 2021-11-07 22:44:16 +0300 |
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| committer | Egor Tensin <Egor.Tensin@gmail.com> | 2021-11-07 22:47:35 +0300 |
| commit | 0999a8b08fd276d60252f765b841b632f5d9c619 (patch) | |
| tree | 9000f2f413cfe44040e5455042b8f7cea888b082 /README.md | |
| parent | workflows/test: use windows-latest (diff) | |
| download | setup-cygwin-0999a8b08fd276d60252f765b841b632f5d9c619.tar.gz setup-cygwin-0999a8b08fd276d60252f765b841b632f5d9c619.zip | |
workflows/test: python3 is no longer a symlink
The upstream project seems to have made a decision to no longer make
python3 a symlink to python3.X.exe, which is weird. Now we check the
same thing about cc, which is still a symlink.
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| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Use it in your workflow like this: uses: egor-tensin/setup-cygwin@v3 with: platform: x64 - packages: cmake python3 + packages: cmake gcc # Cygwin executables are added to PATH, so you can call them directly: - run: | @@ -96,11 +96,11 @@ Executable symlinks ------------------- Some packages install symlinks in /usr/bin along with real executables. -An example is package "python3", which (as of January 2021) installs symlink -`python3`, pointing to the real executable `python3.8.exe`. +An example is package "gcc", which (as of November 2021) installs symlink `cc`, +pointing to the real executable `gcc.exe`. Calling Cygwin symlinks from Windows' command prompt is unsupported, but might -be convenient (e.g. if you don't know the exact Python version), so there's an -option to convert them to hardlinks instead (the `hardlinks` parameter). +be convenient so there's an option to convert them to hardlinks instead (the +`hardlinks` parameter). License ------- |