Re: [arm-gnu] Symbolic links in windows package

[Mark Mitchell <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Brook wrote:

> On Thursday 22 April 2004 09:29, Kai Schuetz wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi !
> >
> > I was seeing the problem that using the '-g' option would cause the
> > linker to fail because it can not find the libg.a library.
> >
> > As the reason turned out that symbolic links are missing. This might be
> > a problem of WinZIP which I used to unpack, put in general symbolic
> > links are not supported under Windows. (There are "junktions" on NTFS,
> > but that's only for directories, right ?)
> >
> > What is the proposed solution for that ?
> >    
> These are actually hard linked files, not symlinks. Unfortunately winzip 
> doesn't seem to handle these, silently ignoring one of the files. Most other 
> archive programs create two copies of the file, which works fine.
>  
The web site has been updated to warn against using WinZip to unpack 
these files.
Thanks,

--
Mark Mitchell
CodeSourcery, LLC
(916) 791-8304
mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx