* Soft links givin' me as hard time !!!
@ 1999-02-03 9:36 Steve Biskis
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1999-02-28 23:02 ` Steve Biskis
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From: Steve Biskis @ 1999-02-03 9:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gnu-win32
Hi all,
Trying to build the 20.1 development sources and keep
hitting a snag. Seems to involve soft links. I didn't
realize the CygWin stuff supported them - cool, EXCEPT.
After configuring make will choke on any of the little
"!<symlink> ..." magic files it comes accross.
For instance, during a make, the egcs distribution sets up
an "ln -s" of ./gcc.c to ./g++.c . This causes the file: g++.c
with the following contents: !<symlink>./gcc.c .
Now, when make come accross this file, I get:
g++.c:1 parse error before '!'
Now, if I edit the makefile, stopping it from deleting & then
recreating this "link" and either copy gcc.c to g++.c or do
an actual UNIX ln -s on the fileserver, I'm OK.
I should mention that all the target files are actually on a
FreeBSD file system shared with Samba. All the binary
tools and headers are on the win32 compile host.
I always 1st "flatten" out the installed CygWin system to
reside as:
/bin
/usr/bin
/usr/include
/usr/lib
/usr/share
etc ...
I did a full.exe for 20.1, flattened it out, unarched the devl sources
on the file server and commenced compiling.
The win32 host is a WinNT Pentium notebook.
The methodology I used here worked fine for b19.x ...
What's changed ?
Thanks in advance,
Steve B.
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* Re: Soft links givin' me as hard time !!!
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@ 1999-02-03 18:54 ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Christopher Faylor
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Christopher Faylor @ 1999-02-03 18:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mlx, gnu-win32
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 09:36:53AM -0800, Steve Biskis wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Trying to build the 20.1 development sources and keep
>hitting a snag. Seems to involve soft links. I didn't
>realize the CygWin stuff supported them - cool, EXCEPT.
>
>After configuring make will choke on any of the little
>"!<symlink> ..." magic files it comes accross.
>
>For instance, during a make, the egcs distribution sets up
>an "ln -s" of ./gcc.c to ./g++.c . This causes the file: g++.c
>with the following contents: !<symlink>./gcc.c .
>
>Now, when make come accross this file, I get:
>
>g++.c:1 parse error before '!'
>
>Now, if I edit the makefile, stopping it from deleting & then
>recreating this "link" and either copy gcc.c to g++.c or do
>an actual UNIX ln -s on the fileserver, I'm OK.
>
>I should mention that all the target files are actually on a
>FreeBSD file system shared with Samba. All the binary
>tools and headers are on the win32 compile host.
Symbolic links need to have the "S"ystem bit set. That probably
is not happening on a Samba drive.
--
cgf@cygnus.com
http://www.cygnus.com/
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* Re: Soft links givin' me as hard time !!!
1999-02-03 18:54 ` Christopher Faylor
@ 1999-02-28 23:02 ` Christopher Faylor
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Christopher Faylor @ 1999-02-28 23:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mlx, gnu-win32
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 09:36:53AM -0800, Steve Biskis wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Trying to build the 20.1 development sources and keep
>hitting a snag. Seems to involve soft links. I didn't
>realize the CygWin stuff supported them - cool, EXCEPT.
>
>After configuring make will choke on any of the little
>"!<symlink> ..." magic files it comes accross.
>
>For instance, during a make, the egcs distribution sets up
>an "ln -s" of ./gcc.c to ./g++.c . This causes the file: g++.c
>with the following contents: !<symlink>./gcc.c .
>
>Now, when make come accross this file, I get:
>
>g++.c:1 parse error before '!'
>
>Now, if I edit the makefile, stopping it from deleting & then
>recreating this "link" and either copy gcc.c to g++.c or do
>an actual UNIX ln -s on the fileserver, I'm OK.
>
>I should mention that all the target files are actually on a
>FreeBSD file system shared with Samba. All the binary
>tools and headers are on the win32 compile host.
Symbolic links need to have the "S"ystem bit set. That probably
is not happening on a Samba drive.
--
cgf@cygnus.com
http://www.cygnus.com/
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* Soft links givin' me as hard time !!!
1999-02-03 9:36 Soft links givin' me as hard time !!! Steve Biskis
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@ 1999-02-28 23:02 ` Steve Biskis
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From: Steve Biskis @ 1999-02-28 23:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gnu-win32
Hi all,
Trying to build the 20.1 development sources and keep
hitting a snag. Seems to involve soft links. I didn't
realize the CygWin stuff supported them - cool, EXCEPT.
After configuring make will choke on any of the little
"!<symlink> ..." magic files it comes accross.
For instance, during a make, the egcs distribution sets up
an "ln -s" of ./gcc.c to ./g++.c . This causes the file: g++.c
with the following contents: !<symlink>./gcc.c .
Now, when make come accross this file, I get:
g++.c:1 parse error before '!'
Now, if I edit the makefile, stopping it from deleting & then
recreating this "link" and either copy gcc.c to g++.c or do
an actual UNIX ln -s on the fileserver, I'm OK.
I should mention that all the target files are actually on a
FreeBSD file system shared with Samba. All the binary
tools and headers are on the win32 compile host.
I always 1st "flatten" out the installed CygWin system to
reside as:
/bin
/usr/bin
/usr/include
/usr/lib
/usr/share
etc ...
I did a full.exe for 20.1, flattened it out, unarched the devl sources
on the file server and commenced compiling.
The win32 host is a WinNT Pentium notebook.
The methodology I used here worked fine for b19.x ...
What's changed ?
Thanks in advance,
Steve B.
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