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Johannes Schindelin 4ec08891a0 Cygwin: Implicitly support the /dev/fd symlink and friends
Bash has a very convenient feature that is called process substitution
(e.g. `diff -u <(seq 0 10) <(seq 1 11)`). To make this work, Bash
requires the `/dev/fd` symlink to exist, and Cygwin therefore creates
this symlink (together with the `stdin`, `stdout` and `stderr` ones)
upon start-up.

This strategy is incompatible with the idea of providing a subset of
Cygwin in a `.zip` file (because there is no standard way to represent
symlinks in `.zip` files, and besides, older Windows versions would
potentially lack support for them anyway).

That type of `.zip` file is what Git for Windows wants to use, though,
bundling a minimal subset for third-party applications in MinGit (see
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/MinGit for details).

Let's side-step this problem completely by creating those symlinks
implicitly, similar to the way `/dev/` is populated with special
devices.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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This directory contains various GNU compilers, assemblers, linkers, 
debuggers, etc., plus their support routines, definitions, and documentation.

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	./configure 
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	make install

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	CC=gcc ./configure
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	setenv CC gcc
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