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From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
To: soren_andersen AT speedymail DOT org, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:21:30 +0100
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Subject: Re: CygwinPerl Q - interact with symlinked dir?
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Am 19 Jan 2002 um 23:51 hat Soren Andersen geschrieben:

>My question is: what is Perl going to do when I run an invocation of CPAN? 
>Is it going to look in "~/.cpan" and if so, will it play nicely with a 
>symlink and transparently find the existing dirs over on the other logical 
>volume? Or will it still think that the configuration files are in 
>"D:\cygwin\home\sorenboss\.cpan" (/home/sorenboss/.cpan)?

Well, what are the following commands telling you:

$ ls -a ~/
$ ls -a $HOME
$ cd && ls -a

I guess it will list .cpan too and so it will find all in the 
place where it should be.

Another question:

>So I did this:
>------------------------------------------------------------
>$  ln -svdnf '/home/sorenboss/.cpan/' ~/.cpan
>create symbolic link `/cdv/e/home/sorenboss/.cpan' to 
>`/home/sorenboss/.cpan/'
>------------------------------------------------------------

Why didn't you mount this way:
$ mount -s -b x:/cygwin/home/sorenboss/.cpan \
> e:/home/sorenboss/.cpan
?

I use always mount for something like this.

Gerrit
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