Dann Corbit wrote: > The response from the Mingw team: > >Comment By: Earnie Boyd (earnie) > > Date: 2004-04-08 07:33 > > Message: > Logged In: YES > user_id=15438 > > 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. > > You will need to modify the package to do the appropriate > thing for the environment.
This is not something we should have to solve locally. Autoconf is supposed to do the right thing on platforms that don't support symlinks. I know Earnie Boyd has been doing a lot of work to get autoconfiscated packages to build smoothly on MinGW. Maybe you could try a later Autoconf version or convince the MinGW people to improve Autoconf? Then again, I still hear that the failures occur "randomly", which deserves a different kind of investigation. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
