X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:08:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Eric Blake cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problems with archiver "ar" In-Reply-To: <451BC1F3.3080004@byu.net> Message-ID: References: <451BC1F3.3080004@byu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Frank Illenseer on 9/28/2006 5:34 AM: > > > $ which sh > > /usr/bin/sh > > > > $ ll /usr/bin/sh > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 illenseer Kein 8 Jul 20 2005 /usr/bin/sh -> bash.exe > > While cygwin doesn't mind a symlink, they won't work if you try to use > sh from cmd.com, which is why the bash postinstall script does a copy > instead of a symlink. And naming a symlink sh when it points to > bash.exe is a bit confusing; the postinstall script names the copy > sh.exe. Hmm, we still don't have cygcheck patched to resolve symlinks. Mea culpa. I was supposed to send out a new patch, and didn't for some reason. It's sent now -- hopefully it's in order. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/