From:	"Laurynas Biveinis" <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
Date:	Sat, 17 Mar 2001 12:11:03 +0200
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc:	rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Patch for fileutils 4.0 WRT symlinks
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> > -#ifdef  __DJGPP__
> > -/* DJGPP doesn't have S_ISLNK defined, because MS-DOS doesn't support links.
> > - * However, DJGPP's `link' simulates hard links by copying, and we can
> > - * have ``symbolic links'' for DJGPP .EXE programs.  Therefore, just
> > - * for the purpose of this program, it makes sense to define S_ISLNK
> > - * so we could have working `ln'.  */
> > -
> > -#define S_ISLNK(x)  (0)     /* defined, but no file is a link */
> > -#endif
> 
> I'd prefer for this to be conditioned on HAVE_WORKING_LSTAT, so that
> Fileutils could be built with older versions of DJGPP.  

Do you really want to condition quoted excerpt on HAVE_WORKING_LSTAT?
I think this macro is suitable for lstat() in djutils.c only. Here you
really need __DJGPP_MINOR__.

Laurynas

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