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Subject: Re: cygcheck bug: symlinks with unix paths are wrongly resolved
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:46:05 -0400
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On 2010-10-19 19:17, Arseny Slobodyuk wrote:
[snip...]
> As AT dstar ~
> $ ln -s `which cmd.exe` cmd.exe
>
> As AT dstar ~
> $ cygcheck ./cmd.exe
>   ->  D:\OTHERBIN\cygwin\cygdrive\d\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
> cygcheck: could not find './cmd.exe'

cygcheck is not a cygwin application, it's a native windows application, 
so it does not know how to resolve unix paths.


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