X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <47577067.2070404@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:45:43 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Installing on a Samba share drive References: <475712A9.5010800@hawaiian.net> In-Reply-To: <475712A9.5010800@hawaiian.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Tom Leonard wrote: > Hi, > > I created a Samba share on my Debian system, mapped it to a drive letter > on my XP Home system and did a full network install of Cygwin on the > root of the mapped drive. When I tried to use Cygwin to compile some > programs, I found that a number of the symbolic links from the install > (eg all of the low level .exe's like am.exe from gcc) could not be > found. While I could manually create the necessary symbolic links, it > was impossible to know what exactly was broken. I resolved the issue by > "uninstalling" from the Samba drive and reinstalling on a local XP drive. > > Can anyone shed some light on why the symbolic links might be broken. > Because I need to support different library configurations, I'd like to > use the technique of maintaining a number of different Cygwin > environments on my Debian system where I have lots of disk space, and > map to XP as and when needed. System attribute of the symlinks weren't/couldn't be set? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/