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Date:	Sat, 6 Sep 2003 16:43:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Gerry Reno <grenoml AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject:	Re: gcc 3.2 and symbolic links problem
To:	Max Bowsher <maxb AT ukf DOT net>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
In-Reply-To:	<002b01c374cf$6af8fa20$a9308751@starfruit>
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I have compiled these programs before with the symlinks.  Yes it was
with cygwin and not mingw.  I just changed my PATH and its compiling.  

thx,
Gerry Reno

 
--- Max Bowsher <maxb AT ukf DOT net> wrote:
> 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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