Message-ID: <39A2E301.29AD624C@softhome.net> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 22:30:57 +0200 From: Laurynas Biveinis X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: lt,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DJGPP Workers Subject: Symlinks are done! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com That's it. A big relief :-). The only things left are few documentation tweaks and bugfixing. For those of you who are interested in testing (the more, the better ;) I'll be sending a patch for fileutils to play it nicely with symlinks. The problem is that DJGPP port provided its own lstat(), S_ISLNK macros, etc. What concerns other packages: if program does not deal with symlinks directly, then simple relinking should DTRT. However, in other cases reconfiguring and rebuilding from the srcatch must be done. And don't forget that I'll send out a snail mail postcard for the first who reports bug in __solve_symlinks() ;-) Last, but not the least, I'm very thankful to DJ, Eli, Martin, Andris, Alain and all others who helped with ideas, objections, FTP space, etc, etc... Special thanks go to Rich who has made a pause in zippo development a year ago - that's why my installer's development paused too, and this idea was born because of having nothing to do ;-) Heh, it seemed so simple in the beginning... Laurynas P.S. DJ, I think it is OK to remove ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/symlink.zip now, if it still exists.