On Jun 19 13:32, LRN wrote: > On 19.06.2013 12:57, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jun 19 12:08, LRN wrote: > >> To be fair here, i've tried the MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict, and first > >> thing i hit was AC_PROG_LN_S. That macro explicitly refuses to use `ln > >> - -s' provided by MSYS or Cygwin, asking for 100% POSIX compliance. > > > > On Cygwin? Not that I'm aware of. I tested the AC_PROG_LN_S macro > > on Cygwin and the LN_S setting is 'ls -s' afterwards. That's with > > autoconf-2.69. > > My mistake, i meant _AS_LN_S_PREPARE, not AC_PROG_LN_S.
_AS_LN_S_PREPARE also yields `ln -s' on Cygwin. Just tested. > > What about leaving the symlink(2) function alone and rather just replace > > the ln(1) tool with a wrapper which calls cp(1) in case of the -s option > > instead, some ln.orig.exe otherwise? > > No idea. Any proposal will have to be tested first. Alexey just gave me > a new snapshot, i'll test nativestrict there, and then we'll see. Btw., I've created a snapshot immediately after I had applied my patch. If you're not chilled by a Cygwin install, you can test this stuff quicker. The 32 bit developer snapshots are on http://cygwin.com/snapshots, the 64 bit test version can be installed via ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwin/64bit/setup64.exe HTH, Corinna ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
