On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:45:43PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Tom Leonard wrote: >> Hi, >> I created a Samba share on my Debian system, mapped it to a drive letter >> on my XP Home system and did a full network install of Cygwin on the root >> of the mapped drive. When I tried to use Cygwin to compile some programs, >> I found that a number of the symbolic links from the install (eg all of >> the low level .exe's like am.exe from gcc) could not be found. While I >> could manually create the necessary symbolic links, it was impossible to >> know what exactly was broken. I resolved the issue by "uninstalling" from >> the Samba drive and reinstalling on a local XP drive. >> Can anyone shed some light on why the symbolic links might be broken. >> Because I need to support different library configurations, I'd like to >> use the technique of maintaining a number of different Cygwin environments >> on my Debian system where I have lots of disk space, and map to XP as and >> when needed. > > > System attribute of the symlinks weren't/couldn't be set?
You're showing your age, Larry. :-) .lnk files shouldn't have system attributes. They should just be readonly. But that would be the case if a *cygwin* cp/tar/cpio/etc. command was used to create the files. cgf -- 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/
