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Re: gcc 3.2 and symbolic links problem
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: "Gerry Reno" <grenoml at yahoo dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 00:34:28 +0100
- Subject: Re: gcc 3.2 and symbolic links problem
- References: <20030906231823.93319.qmail@web14407.mail.yahoo.com>
Gerry Reno wrote:
> The error looks like:
>
> $ ls -l myfile.c
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 greno None 110 Sep 6 19:06 myfile.c ->
> ../myfile.c
>
> gcc -c myfile.c -o myfile.o
> gcc.exe: myfile.c: No such file or directory
> gcc.exe: no input files
>
> $gcc --version
> gcc.exe (GCC) 3.2.3 (mingw special 20030504-1)
*MINGW*. It shouldn't surprise you that a native Windows program is unable
to understand Cygwin symlinks.
> --- Gerry Reno <grenoml@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I recently upgraded to cygwin 1.5.3 and to Mingw 3.0.0 and I now
>> notice that gcc will fail when trying to compile files that are
>> symlinks. I tried deleting and recreating the link - still fails. I
>> can read all the files and use all other tools with these symlinks.
>> Has anyone else seen this problem with gcc 3.2?
No, because you are *not* using gcc 3.2.
Max.
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