From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24215 invoked by alias); 28 Dec 2004 18:09:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 24189 invoked from network); 28 Dec 2004 18:09:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cgf.cx) (66.30.17.189) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 28 Dec 2004 18:09:39 -0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id B5DF51B401; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 13:11:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:09:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gcc installation problem and solution Message-ID: <20041228181127.GA5767@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1849635026@web.de> <41D19E50.301@familiehaase.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41D19E50.301@familiehaase.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2004-12/txt/msg00919.txt.bz2 On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 06:56:32PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >There are two kinds of symlinks, Windows style (with .lnk ending) >and pure Cygwin symlinks, binutils obviously contains Cygwin stlye >symlinks. setup.exe only creates pure cygwin symlinks. I suspect that the original report of "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" translates to: http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC66 Which would have been made clear if the guidelines specified in http://cygwin.com/problems.html had been followed. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/