symlink created on Samba (Final Resolution)

[Stephen Iribarne]

Title: RE: symlink created on Samba (Final Resolution)





Hey,


 > Unless Metware is using cygwin
 > they will not, and shouldn't be expected to, understand symlinks


I can wish can't I?  The goal for me is to get NT users at Tut using my unix makefiles so I don't have to deal with their damn makefiles not working correctly.  Long discussion about Jr. Engineers and Sr. Engineers of companies we've purchased being stuck in their ways.  So I just want to force everyone to use the cygwin tools and I'm done.  No more problems.  :)  And if anyone wants a job in sunny Northern California let me know!  :)  I know I know.. I'm not posting for job recruits! 

-stv


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Steve Iribarne                                             
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Chris Faylor [SMTP:cgf@cygnus.com]
Sent:   Friday, June 16, 2000 9:03 AM
To:     'cygwin'
Subject:        Re: symlink created on Samba (Final Resolution)


On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 08:41:13AM -0700, Stephen Iribarne wrote:
>Ok.. After further digging here's what I find.
>
>So symlinks work.  I ran cat on the file and found that it was working
>perfectly.  Thanks to everyone for the posts.
>However, when  Metawares hcppc runs it doesn't deal with the symlink
>created!  DUH!  
>
>So.. I just wanted to let everyone else know what I found.  I was thinking
>that Make was the problem but it wasn't.
>
>I will send something to Metaware to see if they will fix this (yeah right!,
>won't hold my breath for that one.) In the meantime, it's delete and copy
>for me.


I wouldn't expect Metaware to fix a problem with Cygwin symlinks.  Cygwin
symlinks are entirely a cygwin invention.  


cgf


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