Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:40:43 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Fun with symlinks? Message-ID: <20020627134043.A1188@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20020627111254.K22705@cygbert.vinschen.de> <011e01c21dc3$ce3456c0$1900a8c0@LAPTOP> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <011e01c21dc3$ce3456c0$1900a8c0@LAPTOP> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:17:12PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Corinna Vinschen" > To: > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 7:12 PM > > > That's a problem of setup.exe which doesn't understand that there's > > a symlink of the Windows shortcut type (*.lnk) is in the way. > > Setup should actually remove the symlink when creating the real > > file. > > Hmm, I thought we had patched setup to handle this. mmm. I've proposed a patch on cygwin-apps months ago but somehow it didn't make it into the sources. Or did it make it into the sources but didn't survive for some reason? I don't remember... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/