Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Gerrit P. Haase" To: soren_andersen AT speedymail DOT org, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:21:30 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: CygwinPerl Q - interact with symlinked dir? Message-ID: <3C4B18BA.749.4B702E@localhost> In-reply-to: <3C4A0683.13902.6CCDA31@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.01) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Sender: 320099587237-0001 AT t-dialin DOT net 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 -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/