From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26597 invoked by alias); 24 Apr 2013 12:50:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-developers-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-developers@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 26543 invoked by uid 89); 24 Apr 2013 12:50:47 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,EXECUTABLE_URI autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:50:46 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 51F9C5201EC; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:50:43 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:50:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-developers@cygwin.com Subject: Re: native symlink Message-ID: <20130424125043.GA18673@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-developers@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-developers@cygwin.com References: <20130401195216.GA7174@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <9A868E84-96C2-486C-98DF-3FF5079ACD50@mac.com> <20130402000633.GA3977@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <9362C76C-DB6B-4DA8-B61E-7980CFDF7A8A@mac.com> <20130403014056.GA3383@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <2EC5409B-C507-4B41-862C-D42D69CE3741@mac.com> <515BB10C.9080101@openafs.org> <20130403152907.GD2468@calimero.vinschen.de> <20130424103450.GM26397@calimero.vinschen.de> <5177CABF.8040406@openafs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5177CABF.8040406@openafs.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2013-04/txt/msg00067.txt.bz2 On Apr 24 08:06, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > On 4/24/2013 6:34 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I just applied a patch to CVS which adds AFS support as well as native > > symlink support. On AFS, native symlinks are used exclusively, on any > > other filesystem supporting native symlinks Cygwin will try to create > > them if you specify "winsymlinks:native" in the $CYGWIN environment > > variable. > > > > After mulling over this problem I found that using an environment > > solution is better than the mount point solution, because this allows > > on-the-fly creating of native symlinks in certain scenarios, while the > > default can be kept at using Cygwin sysfile symlinks, which are still > > better suited for a POSIX environment. > > > > For completeness, you can also specify "winsymlinks:lnk" or just > > "winsymlinks". This will result in trying to generate shortcut > > type symlinks, as before. > > > > Jeffrey, please give especially AFS at try here. > > I've confirmed that the unrecognized reparse point fix in 1.7.18-1 > does work. Unfortunately, I'm still unable to get gcc (actually cc1) > to build even a simple hello world c program. Is there is a nightly > binary distribution I can use to test from? i686: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ x86_64: ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwin/64bit/setup64.exe The latest snapshot from today, as well as the latest 64 bit Cygwin package (1.7.19-2) both contain these patches. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat