emacs install problem

Robert Collins rbcollins@cygwin.com
Wed Aug 14 01:03:00 GMT 2002


On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 13:38, Gareth Pearce wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >Eh?
> >
> >All my file systems are NTFS and hence support hard links.
> >
> >But I really don't see what that's got to do with the fact that most, if 
> >not all of Emacs did not install on my system.
> 
> putting hard links in a cygwin distribution package is a bad idea all the 
> same I would think (especially for win9x'ers).  Possibly could break things 
> in unexpected ways.

Hard links *should* be just fine. setup should make copies of files that
are hardlinks.

Rob

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