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Re: gcc installation problem and solution
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:08:49 -0500
- Subject: Re: gcc installation problem and solution
- References: <1849635026@web.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 12:22:42PM +0100, Rainer Dunker wrote:
>"Gerrit P. Haase" <gp@familiehaase.de> schrieb am 28.12.04 11:40:39:
>> > These are supposed to be symbolic links to the executables in the /usr/bin directory, but - for whatever reason - the setup program did not install them in a way that they were used as symlinks afterwards (for example, ar.exe is a text file with contents "!<symlink>/usr/bin/ar.exe"). So I removed them and created symlinks to the proper executables manually; after that, the problem was gone.
>>
>> This is the correct content of valid Cygwin Symlinks and for me
>> NT Explorer shows them as type "S" for symlink too. The symlinks
>> should work fine from within any Cygwin based shell (bash, zsh, ...).
>
>I remember having seen that on W2K and maybe XP, but on my current NT4 box it's apparently different.
>This is how a properly working symlink, created with ln -s, looks like:
>
>As seen by 'ls -l':
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 myname mkgroup_ 15 Dec 27 16:00 ar.exe -> /usr/bin/ar.exe
>
>As seen by 'cmd /c dir':
>27.12.04 16:00 116 ar.exe.lnk
>
>This is the hexlified contents of ar.exe.lnk:
>00000000: 4c00 0000 0114 0200 0000 0000 c000 0000 L...............
>00000010: 0000 0046 0c00 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ...F............
>00000020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
>00000030: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0100 0000 ................
>00000040: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0f00 2f75 ............../u
>00000050: 7372 2f62 696e 2f61 722e 6578 6515 0048 sr/bin/ar.exe..H
>00000060: 3a5c 7075 625c 6379 675c 6269 6e5c 6172 :\pub\cyg\bin\ar
>00000070: 2e65 7865 .exe
>
>The Windows Explorer properly handles this as 'ar.exe',
>a shortcut to H:\pub\cyg\bin\ar.exe.
>
>I can't help it, but that's what I see. I have no idea whether this difference
>in storing symlinks is a property of different Windows or Cygwin versions -
>or whatever.
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