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Re: Soft links givin' me as hard time !!!
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- Subject: Re: Soft links givin' me as hard time !!!
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:53:36 -0500
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- In-Reply-To: <199902031736.JAA07743@proxyb1-atm.san.rr.com>; from Steve Biskis on Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 09:36:53AM -0800
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On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 09:36:53AM -0800, Steve Biskis wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Trying to build the 20.1 development sources and keep
>hitting a snag. Seems to involve soft links. I didn't
>realize the CygWin stuff supported them - cool, EXCEPT.
>
>After configuring make will choke on any of the little
>"!<symlink> ..." magic files it comes accross.
>
>For instance, during a make, the egcs distribution sets up
>an "ln -s" of ./gcc.c to ./g++.c . This causes the file: g++.c
>with the following contents: !<symlink>./gcc.c .
>
>Now, when make come accross this file, I get:
>
>g++.c:1 parse error before '!'
>
>Now, if I edit the makefile, stopping it from deleting & then
>recreating this "link" and either copy gcc.c to g++.c or do
>an actual UNIX ln -s on the fileserver, I'm OK.
>
>I should mention that all the target files are actually on a
>FreeBSD file system shared with Samba. All the binary
>tools and headers are on the win32 compile host.
Symbolic links need to have the "S"ystem bit set. That probably
is not happening on a Samba drive.
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