From: "Misha Aizatulin via RT" <r...@openssl.org> > I tested it again and it depends on how you untar the archive. If you > untar it with cygwin tools like tar -xvf then the links from the archive > are recreated properly and compilation goes through fine. If you use a > windows tool like 7zip, it creates empty files instead of symbolic > links, in which case compilation fails, as those files are never > replaced by actual links before there is an attempt to compile them. How > did you untar the archive? > [...]
These symbolic links are also a nuisance on VMS, where old VMS versions (or old file systems under new VMS versions) can't do them. A while ago, I modified some VMS builders to go get these files where they live, ignoring any symbolic links which may or may not work. (Changes not adopted yet, so far as I know. Current VMS builders tend to copy these files around, which is even more annoying.) Why have these links? Is it really all that much more convenient to have a local link to a distant file when one could simply use the distant file? Or is there some compiler on a UNIX(-like) system which can't compile a distant source file into a local object/executable? (Surely some lame/goofy rule could be devised, even in that situation.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven M. Schweda s...@antinode-info 382 South Warwick Street (+1) 651-699-9818 Saint Paul MN 55105-2547 ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
