Re: .exe magic reloaded

[Al <oss dot elmar at googlemail dot com>]

It does not:

> It does:
>
> ?$ cd tmp
> ?$ mkdir dir1 dir2
> ?$ cp /bin/echo.exe dir1
> ?$ ln -s `pwd`/dir1/echo.exe dir2/echo
> ?$ ls -l dir*
> ?dir1:
> ?total 52
> ?-rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna vinschen 49166 2010-09-06 10:59 echo.exe
>
> ?dir2:
> ?total 1
> ?lrwxrwxrwx 1 corinna vinschen 31 2010-09-06 11:00 echo -> /home/corinna/tmp/dir1/echo.exe
> ?$ dir2/echo hello
> ?hello
> ?$ /home/corinna/tmp/dir2/echo hello
> ?hello
>

$ /home/corinna/tmp/dir2/echo.exe hello
bash: /home/corinna/tmp/dir2/echo.exe: No such file or directory

That's what Perls "Configure" does. Still the magic works only in the
target directory, but not on the level of the symlink itself.

Al

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