"Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 28.12.04 11:40:39: > > These are supposed to be symbolic links to the executables in the /usr/bin > > directory, but - for whatever reason - the setup program did not install > > them in a way that they were used as symlinks afterwards (for example, > > ar.exe is a text file with contents "!<symlink>/usr/bin/ar.exe"). So I > > removed them and created symlinks to the proper executables manually; after > > that, the problem was gone. > > This is the correct content of valid Cygwin Symlinks and for me > NT Explorer shows them as type "S" for symlink too. The symlinks > should work fine from within any Cygwin based shell (bash, zsh, ...).
I remember having seen that on W2K and maybe XP, but on my current NT4 box it's apparently different. This is how a properly working symlink, created with ln -s, looks like: As seen by 'ls -l': lrwxrwxrwx 1 myname mkgroup_ 15 Dec 27 16:00 ar.exe -> /usr/bin/ar.exe As seen by 'cmd /c dir': 27.12.04 16:00 116 ar.exe.lnk This is the hexlified contents of ar.exe.lnk: 00000000: 4c00 0000 0114 0200 0000 0000 c000 0000 L............... 00000010: 0000 0046 0c00 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ...F............ 00000020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 00000030: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0100 0000 ................ 00000040: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0f00 2f75 ............../u 00000050: 7372 2f62 696e 2f61 722e 6578 6515 0048 sr/bin/ar.exe..H 00000060: 3a5c 7075 625c 6379 675c 6269 6e5c 6172 :\pub\cyg\bin\ar 00000070: 2e65 7865 .exe The Windows Explorer properly handles this as 'ar.exe', a shortcut to H:\pub\cyg\bin\ar.exe. I can't help it, but that's what I see. I have no idea whether this difference in storing symlinks is a property of different Windows or Cygwin versions - or whatever. Best regards, Rainer ________________________________________________________________ Verschicken Sie romantische, coole und witzige Bilder per SMS! Jetzt neu bei WEB.DE FreeMail: http://freemail.web.de/?mc=021193 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
