On 2013-04-29 12:09, JonY wrote: > On 4/29/2013 14:40, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I tried the 20130424 snapshot and obtained the following Windows message >> (in pop-up and translated from french): >> >> bash: CreateSymbolicLinkW not found in KERNEL32.DLL >> >> >> Therefore, i keep the plain 1.7.18 running: >> >> % cat /proc/version >> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 version 1.7.18(0.263/5/3) (cori...@calimero.vinschen.de) >> (gcc version 4.5.3 20110428 (Fedora Cygwin 4.5.3-4) (GCC) ) 2013-04-19 >> 10:39 >> % >> > > This symbol is not available on XP, only in Vista or later. What command > are you using to trigger it? > The pop-up is produced even before login, presumably during the load of "bash --login -i" (but i also have /bin/bash in /etc/passwd, so this may also be the reason).
I don't understand why a symlink is created during login, but in any case, one can observe that CreateSymbolicLinkW was introduced in path.cc during http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2013-q2/msg00046.html, that occurred immediately before the snapshot. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
