On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Christer Solskogen  wrote:
>
> Is it because gcc is braindead that we really need that symlink? I can't
> quite understand why we need it in the first place.
>

No, it is because Windows isn't POSIX.  If you desire you can use a
utility called junction.exe to replace the copied directory with a
junction point.  Assuming we want a link pointing to real directory
foo.

junction bar foo

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