MSYS is a port of several GNU tools for Windows, by using a POSIX layer
derived from Cygwin. It allows the Windows port of the gcc compiler
(MinGW) to be driven by the familiar configure make make install
build sequence.
Since Windows in general doesn't have the concept of a symlink, MSYS
According to Cesar Strauss on 2/20/2010 5:34 PM:
Since Windows in general doesn't have the concept of a symlink, MSYS
provides an emulation by copying, as a convenience.
Copying is different than symlinking. It is a disservice to some packages
to claim that 'ln -s' works when it is not
Eric Blake wrote:
According to Cesar Strauss on 2/20/2010 5:34 PM:
Unfortunately, this causes a false negative in an autoconf test:
No, that would be a true negative. The inability to create circular or
dangling symlinks is evidence that symlinks are not supported.
Thank you for the
