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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:40:43 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Fun with symlinks?
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On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:17:12PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Corinna Vinschen" <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
> To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 7:12 PM
> 
> > That's a problem of setup.exe which doesn't understand that there's
> > a symlink of the Windows shortcut type (*.lnk) is in the way.
> > Setup should actually remove the symlink when creating the real
> > file.
> 
> Hmm, I thought we had patched setup to handle this. mmm.

I've proposed a patch on cygwin-apps months ago but somehow it didn't
make it into the sources.  Or did it make it into the sources but
didn't survive for some reason?  I don't remember...

Corinna

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