> -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Dessent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 9:35 PM > To: Weddington, Eric > Cc: Ralf Wildenhues; dju; gcc@gcc.gnu.org > Subject: Re: Successfull build of gcc 4.2.3 with MinGW 5.13 > in windows XP > > "Weddington, Eric" wrote: > > > This is a very old issue. MinGW/MSYS does not support > links. The easiest > > way around this is to just copy the file. > > But MSYS's 'ln -s' command makes copies of files for exactly this > reason, so the question remains why it's necessary to hack it > to be cp.
Hi Brian, You're definitely the expert on this. Has MSYS always done this? Or was there an older version that didn't that the OP might be using?
