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Re: Suggestions for cygcheck


On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote:

> Hi
> I would like to suggest that cygcheck file should know about symlinks
> i.e.
> $ ls -la `which xmgrace`
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 Administratör Användare 32 Jul 18 16:37 /usr/bin/xmgrace ->
> /usr/share/grace/bin/xmgrace.exe*
>
> $ cygcheck xmgrace  # now gives
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\xmgrace.exe
> C:/cygwin/bin/xmgrace.exe
>
> $ cygcheck xmgrace  # Suggested behaviour
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\xmgrace.exe
> which is a symlink to /usr/share/grace/bin/xmgrace.exe
>
> Or something like that

I recall making a patch for this.  I'll dig it out, and see if it's been
submitted, or if it still needs more work.
	Igor
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