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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 11:29:15 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Patch for fileutils 4.0 WRT symlinks
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Hello.

Laurynas Biveinis wrote:
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > Laurynas Biveinis wrote:
> > > -#ifdef  __DJGPP__
> > > -/* DJGPP doesn't have S_ISLNK defined, because MS-DOS doesn't support links.
> > > - * However, DJGPP's `link' simulates hard links by copying, and we can
> > > - * have ``symbolic links'' for DJGPP .EXE programs.  Therefore, just
> > > - * for the purpose of this program, it makes sense to define S_ISLNK
> > > - * so we could have working `ln'.  */
> > > -
> > > -#define S_ISLNK(x)  (0)     /* defined, but no file is a link */
> > > -#endif
> >
> > I'd prefer for this to be conditioned on HAVE_WORKING_LSTAT, so that
> > Fileutils could be built with older versions of DJGPP.
> 
> Do you really want to condition quoted excerpt on HAVE_WORKING_LSTAT?
> I think this macro is suitable for lstat() in djutils.c only. Here you
> really need __DJGPP_MINOR__.

Thanks for the patch, Laurynas! I'll will add this patch for DJGPP 2.04 to
the next Fileutils beta.

Back to the problem. I agree with Laurynas. I think we can use
__DJGPP_MINOR__ rather than adding another autoconf test.

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

PS: I'm subscribed to djgpp-workers from this address, so I've taken
myself off the CC list.

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