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Re: native symlink
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:14:12 +0200
- Subject: Re: native symlink
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On Apr 24 13:55, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> On 4/24/2013 8:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Apr 24 08:06, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> >> On 4/24/2013 6:34 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>> I just applied a patch to CVS which adds AFS support as well as native
> >>> symlink support. On AFS, native symlinks are used exclusively, on any
> >>> other filesystem supporting native symlinks Cygwin will try to create
> >>> them if you specify "winsymlinks:native" in the $CYGWIN environment
> >>> variable.
> >>>
> >>> After mulling over this problem I found that using an environment
> >>> solution is better than the mount point solution, because this allows
> >>> on-the-fly creating of native symlinks in certain scenarios, while the
> >>> default can be kept at using Cygwin sysfile symlinks, which are still
> >>> better suited for a POSIX environment.
> >>>
> >>> For completeness, you can also specify "winsymlinks:lnk" or just
> >>> "winsymlinks". This will result in trying to generate shortcut
> >>> type symlinks, as before.
> >>>
> >>> Jeffrey, please give especially AFS at try here.
> >>
> >> I've confirmed that the unrecognized reparse point fix in 1.7.18-1
> >> does work. Unfortunately, I'm still unable to get gcc (actually cc1)
> >> to build even a simple hello world c program. Is there is a nightly
> >> binary distribution I can use to test from?
> >
> > i686:
> >
> > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
>
> I have confirmed that the change works on AFS without the environment
> setting.
Cool. Thanks for the feedback.
Corinna
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