On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:38:54PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> 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. > > > Has 'setup.exe' finally been updated to create .lnk file style symlinks? > Guess it has been a while since I've wandered through that code. :-)
Ah, good point. I was actually thinking this might have been the same thing that as someone on IRC was reporting where I thought they said that they just saw .lnk files but I see now that this wasn't mentioned above. Sorry about that. Same answer, though. Using cygwin utiltities to create the files should rectify the problem. 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/
