ln -s do not work

[Arthur Tu]

Solved. Thank you very much~

On 4/20/2013 1:44 AM, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2013-04-20, Arthur Tu wrote:
>> After I did this:
>> $ ln -s Repos/bugn/ Projects/
>>
>> A file named `bugn` is created under Projects,
>> as it is said in the cygwin documentation.
>>
>> However, cygwin does recognise `bugn` as a link file,
>> while can't determine where it point to.
>>
>> I draged the file to notepad.exe, and see following text:
>>
>> !<symlink>ï£µî — e p o s / b u g n /
>>
>>
>> $ cygcheck -f /bin/ln.exe
>> coreutils-8.15-1
>>
>> I am sure `ln -s some_directory` used to work well on my computer.
>> I tested hard link or soft link of the file, it worked well.
>> Help.
> This is not a Cygwin problem.  Linux, for example, behaves the same.
>
> What you did was create a symbolic link in Projects to the file
> named Repos/bugn, a relative path name.  Any reference to
> Projects/bugn is resolved to Projects/Repos/bugn.  This is correct,
> but not what you intended.
>
> One alternative would be
>
>      $ ln -s ../Repos/bugn/ Projects/
>
> Another would be
>
>      $ ln -s $PWD/Repos/bugn/ Projects/
>
> Which one is better depends on your environment and on what you're
> trying to achieve.
>
> Regards,
> Gary
>
>
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