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: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:16:09 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Strange linking Message-ID: <20050420121609.GA26926@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <42661D02.8030603@freemail.hu> <20050420110417.GY16098@cygbert.vinschen.de> <4266454F.3090506@freemail.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4266454F.3090506@freemail.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Apr 20 14:04, Bertalan Fodor wrote: > > >While this is a problem which could be "fixed" in some way in Cygwin, I'm > >nevertheless wondering how you want the ambiguity to be solved. If you > >type "etex" on the command line, do you want etex -> pdfetex.exe to be > >started or etex.exe? > > > I want etex -> pdfetex.exe (if etex exists, it should be used instead of > etex.exe) There's a funny workaround which will result in a symlink which also is printed as a symlink in ls: $ CYGWIN=nowinsymlink ln -s ... > >Regardless how that's solved in Cygwin, it will > >work contrary to the expectations in 50% of the cases. > > > OK, I can see that, I just wanted to be sure about the nature of this. However, if you try to start "etex", Cygwin will nevertheless run etex.exe, not pdfetex.exe. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/