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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20030906193215.0468ad18@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: (Unverified) Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 19:34:12 -0400 To: Gerry Reno , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: gcc 3.2 and symbolic links problem In-Reply-To: <20030906231823.93319.qmail@web14407.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030906230410 DOT 91371 DOT qmail AT web14407 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" This is Mingw's gcc. You need to make sure you invoke Cygwin's gcc. It will understand the symlink. Larry At 07:18 PM 9/6/2003, Gerry Reno you 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) > >--- 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? >> >> thx, >> Gerry Reno -- 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/