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Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:41:30 +0200
From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <blytkerchan AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: bug in "ar" when creating libraries on cross linked filesystems
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I can't reproduce the problem and don't see anything out of the ordinary in
your cygcheck output.
Could you do a
$ which ar
and see if you're really working with Cygwin's ar?

(I've just read Igor's reply - interesting hunch, but I'd have expected to
be able to reproduce the problem..)

rlc

On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:48:34PM +0200, daniel DOT hempel AT philips DOT com wrote:
> Sorry ... I forgot to attach the informations about my system.
> 
> I have the problem, that the command "ar" does work on "mounted" partitions.
>   ar cq libdh.a a.o b.o
> does not work, if the current directory is on a linked filesystem.
> The error message of "ar" is:
>    ar: libdh.a: rename: Cross-device link
>    make: *** [libdh.a] Error 1
> 
> The program works, when using local files, e.g. /usr/src or /cygdrive/c.
> In the case described above the current directory "." referes
> to /cygdrive/h which is mounted with the "Services for Unix" tools from
> Microsoft (Version 3.0).
> The operating system is Windows XP Professional. I installed cygwin
> version 1.5.3(0.90/3/2):
> 
> # uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 PCHEMPEL2 1.5.3(0.90/3/2) 2003-09-01 13:15 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help
> Daniel
> 
> 
> (See attached file: cygcheck.out)
> 


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