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Re: problem with symbolic links across filesystems


On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 03:33:49PM -0400, N8TM@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 8/22/98 12:16:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time, cgf@cygnus.com
>writes:
>
>> Use the cygwin nomenclature for referencing disks devices:
>>  
>>  ln -s //d/da/db //c/ca/cb
>
>
>This procedure also is the right one for specifying the --prefix for
>installing binutils using bash as /bin/sh under NT.  

Right.  If you use something like "d:/usr/local/bin" you'll confuse
configure.  It will think that this refers to a "d:" directory in
current directory.
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