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 X-pair-Authenticated: 65.93.68.37 From: Duncan Murdoch To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "cp: will not create hard link" Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 21:57:07 -0500 Message-ID: <6haatvoo9u4mh78eem9vhpnnsrn5pp1vfq@4ax.com> References: <9fa9tvceuioq08dj7gqv29vn8ui939mi2d@4ax.com> <696atv4an5pmt7ptq7gc94j29cpc88mbks@4ax.com> <20031209011850.GB12260@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20031209011850.GB12260@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 20:18:50 -0500, you wrote: >On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 07:43:32PM -0500, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >>I think I've tracked this down. My path contained an old version of >>cp.exe, ahead of the newly installed one. It must have been >>incompatible with the newly installed cygwin dll. > >It doesn't work that way. New dlls always work with older binaries. >If this "cp" was a cygwin binary then it would work. Well, it didn't. Renaming the old cp.exe to get it out of the way made the build script continue on and die a bit later (when it got to an old version of find.exe). Maybe there was a hidden bug that just got revealed with the newer DLL. Here's the exact error I see when using the old cp with the new DLL: cp -pr ../../../library/base ../../../library/tools ../../../library/methods ../../../library/grid ../../../library/ctest ../../../library/eda ../../../library/lqs ../../../library/mle ../../../library/modreg ../../../library/mva ../../../library/nls ../../../library/splines ../../../library/stepfun ../../../library/tcltk ../../../library/ts ../../../library/R.css rw1090dev/library cp: will not create hard link `rw1090dev/library/eda/html' to directory `rw1090dev/library/eda/Meta' cp: will not create hard link `rw1090dev/library/mva/html' to directory `rw1090dev/library/mva/data' (I said it was copying 30 directories, but it's actually only 15.) Duncan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/