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Re: error trying to compile anything
----- Original Message -----
From: "Reini Urban" <rurban@x-ray.at>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: error trying to compile anything
> Robert Collins schrieb:
> > From: "Reini Urban" <rurban@x-ray.at>
> > > cygwin does support softlinks, so we should use them.
>
> sorry about the confusion. I mixed copies (aka "cygwin file
hardlinks")
> with softlinks. to stay zynical I meant those links which you create
by
> $ ln /bin/cygwin-1.1.1.6.dll /bin/cygwin1.dll
Which (on NTFS) are _real_ hardlinks. They are _not_ copies.
> and not those by
> $ ln -s /bin/cygwin-1.1.1.6.dll /bin/cygwin1.dll
> which is of course not trivial :)
>
> There can be only one, multiple strong version hardly linked into
> apps is wrong and I'll keep my mouth shut.
I don't know what you mean here.
Rob
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