From: "Rainer Dunker" <rainer.dunker@web.de>
To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp@familiehaase.de>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: gcc installation problem and solution
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 11:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1849635026@web.de> (raw)
"Gerrit P. Haase" <gp@familiehaase.de> schrieb am 28.12.04 11:40:39:
> > These are supposed to be symbolic links to the executables in the /usr/bin directory, but - for whatever reason - the setup program did not install them in a way that they were used as symlinks afterwards (for example, ar.exe is a text file with contents "!<symlink>/usr/bin/ar.exe"). So I removed them and created symlinks to the proper executables manually; after that, the problem was gone.
>
> This is the correct content of valid Cygwin Symlinks and for me
> NT Explorer shows them as type "S" for symlink too. The symlinks
> should work fine from within any Cygwin based shell (bash, zsh, ...).
I remember having seen that on W2K and maybe XP, but on my current NT4 box it's apparently different.
This is how a properly working symlink, created with ln -s, looks like:
As seen by 'ls -l':
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myname mkgroup_ 15 Dec 27 16:00 ar.exe -> /usr/bin/ar.exe
As seen by 'cmd /c dir':
27.12.04 16:00 116 ar.exe.lnk
This is the hexlified contents of ar.exe.lnk:
00000000: 4c00 0000 0114 0200 0000 0000 c000 0000 L...............
00000010: 0000 0046 0c00 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ...F............
00000020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
00000030: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0100 0000 ................
00000040: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0f00 2f75 ............../u
00000050: 7372 2f62 696e 2f61 722e 6578 6515 0048 sr/bin/ar.exe..H
00000060: 3a5c 7075 625c 6379 675c 6269 6e5c 6172 :\pub\cyg\bin\ar
00000070: 2e65 7865 .exe
The Windows Explorer properly handles this as 'ar.exe',
a shortcut to H:\pub\cyg\bin\ar.exe.
I can't help it, but that's what I see. I have no idea whether this difference
in storing symlinks is a property of different Windows or Cygwin versions -
or whatever.
Best regards,
Rainer
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next reply other threads:[~2004-12-28 11:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-28 11:23 Rainer Dunker [this message]
2004-12-28 13:07 ` Christopher Faylor
2004-12-28 17:56 ` Gerrit P. Haase
2004-12-28 18:09 ` Christopher Faylor
2004-12-28 19:08 ` Gerrit P. Haase
2004-12-28 19:11 ` Christopher Faylor
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2004-12-28 7:40 Rainer Dunker
2004-12-28 10:40 ` Gerrit P. Haase
2004-12-28 19:13 ` Igor Pechtchanski
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