On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:39:56PM +0300, Alexandre Kazantsev wrote: > 1. Can I use MS DOS Window instead of Sygwin? What could be an issue?
Possibly, but it would be more trouble than it is worth, in my opinion. The first issue is that the symlink you create below wouldn't show up a dos window. You would probably have other issues dealing with makefiles and such as they often take advantage of environment variables and shell features (like file globbing) provided by bash. > > 2. What does the command "ln -s sdk-3.5 sdk" do? Where does it write the new > SDK name? ln -s sdk-3.5 sdk creates a symbolic link. (ln creates links, -s means make that link symbolic.) That means that inside the bash shell, the contents of directory sdk are the exact same as sdk-3.5 because sdk is just another name for sdk-3.5. This makes it very easy to switch back and forth between different sdk's. The prc-tools simply look in the sdk directory. You could create the sdk link to sdk-4.0, sdk-3.0, or whereever else you happen to have an sdk installed. As to where bash stores the symbolic link, it seems like the bash shell creates a text file with the system attribute set. The contents of the file indicate which directory the symbolic link points too. Once you create the symbolic link under bash, you can see the file in a dos window by using the 'attrib' command, and view it with 'type' like this: C:\PalmDev>attrib A S SDK C:\palmdev\sdk C:\PalmDev>type sdk !<symlink>sdk-3.5/ scott -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
