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Re: [PATCH] Return argv0-symlink.exp early if gdb can't load symlink
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Yao Qi <yao at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 19:15:02 +0300
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Return argv0-symlink.exp early if gdb can't load symlink
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 16:56:53 +0800
> From: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
>
> Looks native windows symlinks are created on some versions of windows
> with some features turned on, so we can't skip this test by checking
> triplet of host.
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-symlinks
Creating native symlinks generally require elevation on Windows. So
unless Cygwin somehow managed to work around this (I didn't try, so I
don't know), you will get UAC prompts when you try creating symlinks.
Therefore, I don't recommend to go there.