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Date:	Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:25:22 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: [avail for test] libtool-devel-20030121-1
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On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:04:33PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>But, in any case, *even if it worked in all cases*, it's too late.  At 
>this point, this IS the mechanism that libtool will use; it's been 
>through the wringer with the folks on the automake list, libtool list, 
>and has been tested on cygwin and mingw.  The symlink idea has not 
>(plus, there's my earlier experience in which the symlink idea failed 
>somehow).

I don't suppose that the idea was squashed because symlinks don't work
for mingw.  Although I guess they do work courtesy of cygw, er, msys.

cgf

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