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Re: Minor bug and a question
- To: Larry Hall <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Subject: Re: Minor bug and a question
- From: Jim Balter <jqb at netcom dot com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 07:08:21 -0800
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Organization: JQB Enterprises
- References: <2.2.32.19970211143301.00922a78@ma.ultranet.com>
Larry Hall wrote:
>
> At 09:05 PM 2/10/97 -0800, Jim Balter wrote:
> >Chris Cowan wrote:
> >>
> >> First the bug:
> >>
> >> I successfully built bison 1.25 and flex 2.5.4 with b17.1. I did
> >> encounter one minor annoyance. When I did a "make install", it bombed
> >> because install.exe was unable to find the binaries with the *.exe
> >> suffix.
> >>
> >> Presently, it appears that the gcc/g++ and the interactive shell do a
> >> little magic so that bison and bison.exe (for example) are the same
> >> executable. However, it seems to me that it would be better to
> >> actually make a hard link between the two file names, than try to
> >> recognize the "context" where it would be used.
> >
> >What's a hard link? :-) The only hard links in the MS world
> >are the ones on NTFS produced by programs running in the Windows NT
> >POSIX subsystem. (Aside from this being NTFS and Windows NT specific,
> >the POSIX subsystem has no access to Win32 facilities, so it isn't
> >relevant to GNU-win32.)
> >
>
> Actually, this is not correct. It is possible to create a hard link
> using BackupWrite() from win32. A (much) earlier post had code, from MS
> I believe, which demonstrated this functionality. I have not tried it
> myself. If you missed the post and are interested, let me know and I can
> send it on to you. However, in reference to the original comment, there
> are facilities in win32 to support hard links.
Ok, but it is still NTFS-specific, and thus cannot be depended upon
by gnu-win32.
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