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From:	"Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To:	"Gerry Reno" <grenoml AT yahoo DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: gcc 3.2 and symbolic links problem
Date:	Sun, 7 Sep 2003 00:34:28 +0100
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Gerry Reno wrote:
> The error looks like:
>
> $ ls -l myfile.c
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 greno    None          110 Sep  6 19:06 myfile.c ->
> ../myfile.c
>
> gcc -c myfile.c -o myfile.o
> gcc.exe: myfile.c: No such file or directory
> gcc.exe: no input files
>
> $gcc --version
> gcc.exe (GCC) 3.2.3 (mingw special 20030504-1)

*MINGW*. It shouldn't surprise you that a native Windows program is unable
to understand Cygwin symlinks.

> --- Gerry Reno <grenoml AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
>>   I recently upgraded to cygwin 1.5.3 and to Mingw 3.0.0 and I now
>> notice that gcc will fail when trying to compile files that are
>> symlinks.  I tried deleting and recreating the link - still fails.  I
>> can read all the files and use all other tools with these symlinks.
>> Has anyone else seen this problem with gcc 3.2?

No, because you are *not* using gcc 3.2.

Max.


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