From: jqb AT netcom DOT com (Jim Balter) Subject: Re: Minor bug and a question 11 Feb 1997 18:32:13 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <33008B65.1313.cygnus.gnu-win32@netcom.com> References: <2 DOT 2 DOT 32 DOT 19970211143301 DOT 00922a78 AT ma DOT ultranet DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) Original-To: Larry Hall Original-CC: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Larry Hall wrote: > > At 09:05 PM 2/10/97 -0800, Jim Balter wrote: > >Chris Cowan wrote: > >> > >> First the bug: > >> > >> I successfully built bison 1.25 and flex 2.5.4 with b17.1. I did > >> encounter one minor annoyance. When I did a "make install", it bombed > >> because install.exe was unable to find the binaries with the *.exe > >> suffix. > >> > >> Presently, it appears that the gcc/g++ and the interactive shell do a > >> little magic so that bison and bison.exe (for example) are the same > >> executable. However, it seems to me that it would be better to > >> actually make a hard link between the two file names, than try to > >> recognize the "context" where it would be used. > > > >What's a hard link? :-) The only hard links in the MS world > >are the ones on NTFS produced by programs running in the Windows NT > >POSIX subsystem. (Aside from this being NTFS and Windows NT specific, > >the POSIX subsystem has no access to Win32 facilities, so it isn't > >relevant to GNU-win32.) > > > > Actually, this is not correct. It is possible to create a hard link > using BackupWrite() from win32. A (much) earlier post had code, from MS > I believe, which demonstrated this functionality. I have not tried it > myself. If you missed the post and are interested, let me know and I can > send it on to you. However, in reference to the original comment, there > are facilities in win32 to support hard links. Ok, but it is still NTFS-specific, and thus cannot be depended upon by gnu-win32. -- - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".