New symlinks.

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Thu Mar 1 18:56:00 GMT 2001


On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:51:19PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>John Paulson wrote:
>> 
>> $ cat `type -p gcc` | wc
>> cat: /usr/bin/gcc: No such file or directory
>>        0       0       0
>> 
>> -- Hmmm... A user might think something broke.  I have not done a search
>>     of the archives to determine how often this asymmetry has been noted
>>     by users.  I don't recall having seen this mentioned in the year or so
>>     I've been subscribed, but then most of neurons have been fried by MFC...
>> 
>
>If you really want to review the negative chatter about this you should
>visit the autoconf@gnu.org archives.

Yeah, it is sort of embarrassing that Cygwin works this way, IMO.

Maybe we should just make foo.exe always == foo if foo does not exist.
Right now this is only the case for the stat() call.

cgf
(Wow, I don't remember this subject being discussed since 1998 or so...)

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