From: Martin Str|mberg Message-Id: <200004302211.AAA13767@father.ludd.luth.se> Subject: Re: Problem with symlinks? In-Reply-To: <200004301959.AAA00638@vsnl.net.in> from Prashant TR at "May 1, 2000 00:59:40 am" To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 00:11:08 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk According to Prashant TR: > > I got this error message while trying to configure sh-utils from another > drive. > > ---- > creating tests/test/Makefile > creating config.h > linking d:/prj/shutils/gnu/sh-util2.0g/intl/libgettext.h to intl/libintl.h > d:/djgpp/bin/ln: cannot create hard link `intl/libintl.h' to `d:/prj/shutils/gnu/sh-util2.0g/intl/libgettext.h': Improper link (EXDEV) > configure: error: cannot link intl/libintl.h to d:/prj/shutils/gnu/sh-util2.0g/intl/libgettext.h > ---- > > Trying ln d:/prj/shutils/gnu/sh-util2.0g/intl/libgettext.h intl/libintl.h > manually, I got the same error. In fact, that was what the configure script > was trying to do. > > Possibly, there's a bug in ln? No, this is how hard links work. It's impossible to make hard links across different partitions. You probably want "ln -s" which makes symbolic links, which are allowed to cross partition boundaries. Right, MartinS