X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 23:26:18 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Installing on a Samba share drive Message-ID: <20071206042618.GA4580@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <475712A9 DOT 5010800 AT hawaiian DOT net> <47577067 DOT 2070404 AT cygwin DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47577067.2070404@cygwin.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:45:43PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Tom Leonard wrote: >> Hi, >> I created a Samba share on my Debian system, mapped it to a drive letter >> on my XP Home system and did a full network install of Cygwin on the root >> of the mapped drive. When I tried to use Cygwin to compile some programs, >> I found that a number of the symbolic links from the install (eg all of >> the low level .exe's like am.exe from gcc) could not be found. While I >> could manually create the necessary symbolic links, it was impossible to >> know what exactly was broken. I resolved the issue by "uninstalling" from >> the Samba drive and reinstalling on a local XP drive. >> Can anyone shed some light on why the symbolic links might be broken. >> Because I need to support different library configurations, I'd like to >> use the technique of maintaining a number of different Cygwin environments >> on my Debian system where I have lots of disk space, and map to XP as and >> when needed. > > > System attribute of the symlinks weren't/couldn't be set? You're showing your age, Larry. :-) .lnk files shouldn't have system attributes. They should just be readonly. But that would be the case if a *cygwin* cp/tar/cpio/etc. command was used to create the files. cgf -- 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/