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, 23 Dec 2004 01:43:17 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How change libtool rule of naming dlls from "cygFOO-version.dll" to "FOO.dll"? Message-ID: <20041223064317.GA13179@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <0C7AD907113E984F9C2AF0B651D0D3DE07BC19@exmid04.africa.enterprise.root> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0C7AD907113E984F9C2AF0B651D0D3DE07BC19@exmid04.africa.enterprise.root> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:23:37AM +0200, Mike Kenny - BCX - Professional Services JHB wrote: >> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com >> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor >> >> Even if it was "ln -s", it's hardly fair to blame windows for >> not honoring a cygwin invention -- symbolic links. > >My intent was not to blame windows for not honoring a cygwin(?) >invention, but for not having such useful functionality itself. > >IIRC symbolic links predate cygwin, even predate linux for that >matter. No way? You mean cygwin didn't invent symbolic links?!? Who would ever have guessed! >In fact they predate windows as we know it today so it is surprising >that as so many other good ideas from UNIX made it into MS products >that links didn't. Hard or soft. That was my point. So now your point is instructing people in basic UNIX 101? You should probably quit while you're not too far behind. cgf -- 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/