Dmitriy Kuminov wrote: > On 2016-04-17 05:21:31 +0000, KO Myung-Hun said: > >> Even if it's a bug of ramfs.ifs, its bug should be considered when using >> ln -s. > > Yes, and in this particular case configure handles it safely. It results > into a false fallback though because the symlink dir check is performed > in TMPDIR which in fact may be on a different FS than the directory used > for the shadow build. But this is a bug in configure not related to OS/2 > at all. >
Strange conclusion. Anyway not important. >> However, some shells such as bash and pdksh using EMX does not support a >> symbolic link. > > This is a valid point per se. But I believe there is little sense in > putting any afforts to support some dead software from 90s for which we > have a better and somewhat supported alternative. Both bash and pdksh > can be rebuilt with kLIBC if really needed (not top priprity for BWW atm > as there are much more improtant things to do). > Good to know that. I wish to see the latest bash for OS/2 soon. >> In addition, there are people not using ln -s for >> compatibility. So if possible, it would be better to avoid a symbolic >> link. > > Well some people may still use FAT with OS/2 for compatibility. I don't > think ongoing development should be chained by them... > I meant those who don't use ln at all for compatibility with other OS/2 programs not built with kLIBC, like me. >> Anyway, test if ln -s really works and override ln_s if it fails. > > To that I agree, it's the best solution. Can you provide your correction > to this patch that prefrorms such a check in the "os/2" case at least? I > guess you use EMX bash/pdksh so you can test it right away. > My "correction" is not removing ln_s overriding. I don't want to use ln -s on OS/2. -- KO Myung-Hun Using Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.7.2 Under OS/2 Warp 4 for Korean with FixPak #15 In VirtualBox v4.1.32 on Intel Core i7-3615QM 2.30GHz with 8GB RAM Korean OS/2 User Community : http://www.ecomstation.co.kr _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
