native symlink
James Gregurich
bayoubengal@mac.com
Wed Apr 24 17:52:00 GMT 2013
Thanks. I will test the symlinks with my repositories.
-James
On Apr 24, 2013, at 5:50 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/
>
> x86_64:
>
> ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwin/64bit/setup64.exe
>
> The latest snapshot from today, as well as the latest 64 bit Cygwin
> package (1.7.19-2) both contain these patches.
>
>
> Corinna
>
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