Tom Lane said: > "Dann Corbit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The response from the Mingw team: > >>> Symbolic links to files and directories do not work on Win32 >>> in general. Support for symlink operation is limited to the source >>> directory or file existing and being able to copy the source to the >>> destination. > > The source does exist, and they should be able to copy it to the > destination, and they do manage to do so much of the time. I think you > failed to convey the critical point, which is that they randomly fail > to do what they claim to be able to do. > >
I had a couple of thoughts about ways of dealing with this problem in an acceptable way: 1. make the symlinking more robust by doing it in a loop until it succeeeds - surely we can test for that rather than just assuming it has succeeded. 2. or instead of symlinking or making a lasting copy, make the dependency back to the real file location and the corresponding compile action would be copy/compile/delete copy. cheers andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
