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Re: Hosts file


* Martin Gainty (03-03-25 18:51 +0100)
> I am doing a make of mysql and am getting the error:
> 
> libmysqld/sql_derived.cc: You are trying to create a symlink on a win32 file
> system.
> This file type is not supported on this platform.

What has that got to do with /etc/hosts? No application running under 
Cygwin knows that /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc/hosts is in 
fact %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.

Thorsten
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