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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <002b01c374cf$6af8fa20$a9308751@starfruit> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Gerry Reno" , References: <20030906231823 DOT 93319 DOT qmail AT web14407 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> Subject: Re: gcc 3.2 and symbolic links problem Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 00:34:28 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Gerry Reno wrote: > The error looks like: > > $ ls -l myfile.c > lrwxrwxrwx 1 greno None 110 Sep 6 19:06 myfile.c -> > ../myfile.c > > gcc -c myfile.c -o myfile.o > gcc.exe: myfile.c: No such file or directory > gcc.exe: no input files > > $gcc --version > gcc.exe (GCC) 3.2.3 (mingw special 20030504-1) *MINGW*. It shouldn't surprise you that a native Windows program is unable to understand Cygwin symlinks. > --- Gerry Reno wrote: >> I recently upgraded to cygwin 1.5.3 and to Mingw 3.0.0 and I now >> notice that gcc will fail when trying to compile files that are >> symlinks. I tried deleting and recreating the link - still fails. I >> can read all the files and use all other tools with these symlinks. >> Has anyone else seen this problem with gcc 3.2? No, because you are *not* using gcc 3.2. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/