X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A9806D5.6000005@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:33:25 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin, symlinks, and wine References: <20090828053111 DOT GA22638 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20090828053605 DOT GA23501 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> In-Reply-To: <20090828053605.GA23501@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 08/28/2009 01:36 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 01:31:11AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 09:52:26PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: >>> Although it seems strange to run cygwin on top of wine, doing so would >>> make it possible to run a lot of build scripts for windows apps >>> unchanged, which would be very handy in verifying that wine works >>> properly (see http://wiki.winehq.org/UnitTestSuites ). >>> >>> The problem is, wine doesn't support the system attribute on files >>> well. >> >> The system attribute isn't needed for the .lnk type of symlink that >> you're talking about. The file just has to be read-only. So something >> else is wrong. > > Ah, sorry. I take that back. I didn't read the whole bug report. > > These *are* the system-style symlinks, probably created by setup.exe. > Changing them to .lnk type should fix that problem. Why not just write > some sort of converter script to do that? > > Regardless, the comment about a patch still holds despite the code > offered in the wine bug report. And I would go so far as to say that this wouldn't be a great solution anyway since: 1. It only fixes the problem for Cygwin, so other apps run in Wine that depend on the system attribute setting would need to have their own patches applied to them. There's probably not allot of these but still. 2. Symlinks in Cygwin 1.7 have moved away from using the Windows style shortcuts and back to something like the "old" symlinks, with modifications to handle Unicode paths. This leads me to believe the best course of action is to solve this problem in Wine and/or through Unix/Linux means, rather than relying on patches to the apps running in Wine. That said, I agree with Chris that recreating the symlinks that are created by 'setup.exe' as the Windows-style symlinks should solve the problem in the short run anyway. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple