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Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 13:42:25 -0400
From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: tar and symlinks
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> So, maybe in three months or so we'll upgrade setup.exe to use the new
> >> style but, for now, I think it is doing the right thing.
> >
> >Sounds ok to me.  BUT, tar.exe all by itself behaves the same way.  Is
> >that *also* the "right thing"?  I'm not sure.
> 
> Hmm.  I should have checked out what you were saying a little more to
> avoid another round of email.
> 
> My version of tar creates the new style symlinks.  I just extracted the
> cygwin-1.3.1.-1.tar.gz file into a dummy directory.  The symlink files
> in the lib directory were 'libm.a.lnk', 'libc.a.lnk', etc.  I verified
> this with the 'dir' command.

Yes.  I dunno what happened earlier, but I went back and did more
thorough tests on both NT/1.3.1 and W2K/1.3.1 and indeed tar does do the
right thing.

Tar is uses new style symlinks (without the CYGWIN= flag).  Setup
naturally still uses old-style.  Sorry for the noise.

--Chuck

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