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Guard against the pitfalls found in Darren's setup #8

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msprotz opened this issue Dec 9, 2016 · 1 comment

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msprotz commented Dec 9, 2016

Definitely discourage the use of Git for Windows; the two-factor auth prompt just blocks the process
Check that it's not a mixed up cygwin32/cygwin64 installation
Check that there's no /usr/bin/flexdll (because of the point above)
Make sure we also install curl
Check that HOME is of the form drive:/cygwin64/home/foo
Check that there's a ~/.bash_profile

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msprotz commented Dec 9, 2016

Also should suggest the tip at the end of https://github.com/protz/ocaml-installer/wiki for /etc/nsswitch.conf that everyone on the corporate microsoft network seems to have

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