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authorBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2018-06-15 14:59:00 +0200
committerBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2018-06-15 14:59:00 +0200
commit90f48fa444fd9cfe751d91099c80fa2bce7ae1b6 (patch)
tree3897b45534454f69209721812072964d602f7a65
parentb72f23ce67bc30d3bedbeabcf0b6d9c1fbf2a64f (diff)
Add note on acl/noacl switch in baseutils
-rw-r--r--build2/install/rule.cxx3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/build2/install/rule.cxx b/build2/install/rule.cxx
index 1867134..4b50a35 100644
--- a/build2/install/rule.cxx
+++ b/build2/install/rule.cxx
@@ -591,6 +591,9 @@ namespace build2
// example, that .exe that we install won't be runnable by Windows (MSYS2
// itself will still run them since it recognizes the file extension).
//
+ // NOTE: this is no longer the case and we now use noacl (and acl causes
+ // other problems; see baseutils fstab for details).
+ //
// The way we work around this (at least in our distribution of the MSYS2
// tools) is by changing the mount option for cygdrives (/c, /d, etc) to
// acl. But that's not all: we also have to install via a path that "hits"