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Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 22:46:26 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> I don't suppose that the idea was squashed because symlinks don't work
> for mingw.  Although I guess they do work courtesy of cygw, er, msys.

Yeah, all of the autotools on mingw depend on MSYS==cygwin for basic 
functionality.  So they get symlink support "for free".

--Chuck


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