Re: [Mingw-users] Re: MSYS ln -s to directory

2006-04-12 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 11:35:16PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stepan Kasal wrote on Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:48:28PM CEST: * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LN_S_PREPARE): Simplify the summary of all the changes since 2006-04-07. Go ahead. installed. Thank you for review.

Re: [Mingw-users] Re: MSYS ln -s to directory

2006-04-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Keith, * Keith MARSHALL wrote on Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:54:44AM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues wrote, quoting Stepan Kasal: 1) It was said here that MSYS supports file hard links on NT filesystems. So it is possible that under some circumstances, LN=ln will be selected there. Is this

Re: [Mingw-users] Re: MSYS ln -s to directory

2006-04-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Keith, Thank you for your persistence! * Keith MARSHALL wrote on Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 01:18:47PM CEST: To (hopefully) put this to bed, here's how MSYS handles various possibilities on NTFS: $ ln [dir1/]file dir2 ; # fails Does this also fail if `dir2' is `.'? I'm a

Re: [Mingw-users] Re: MSYS ln -s to directory

2006-04-11 Thread Paul Eggert
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LN_S_PREPARE): If `ln -s file1 file2' succeeded, but `ln -s file dir' failed, take care to remove the leftover target before the next test, to prevent its spurious failure; also make sure `ln file

Re: [Mingw-users] Re: MSYS ln -s to directory

2006-04-11 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Ralf, Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LN_S_PREPARE): If `ln -s file1 file2' succeeded, but `ln -s file dir' failed, take care to remove the leftover target before the next test, to prevent its spurious failure; also make sure `ln

Re: [Mingw-users] Re: MSYS ln -s to directory

2006-04-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stepan, * Stepan Kasal wrote on Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:48:28PM CEST: Attached please find an implmentation of this change, to be applied against current CVS. Go ahead. Cheers, Ralf 2006-04-11 Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED] * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LN_S_PREPARE): Simplify

Re: [Mingw-users] Re: MSYS ln -s to directory

2006-04-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Ross, * Ross Ridge wrote on Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 06:54:38AM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Yes. New version attached, tested on MinGW (selects cp -p) and Cygwin (selects ln -s) now. OK? Hmm... it would be nice to have a way to override it selecting ln -s on Cygwin. Bootstrapping a

Re: [Mingw-users] Re: MSYS ln -s to directory

2006-04-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Keith, * Keith MARSHALL wrote on Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 12:53:13PM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues wrote, quoting Ross Ridge: Hmm... it would be nice to have a way to override it selecting ln -s on Cygwin. Bootstrapping a MinGW build of gcc head currently fails while building libstdc++ on Cygwin