According to Cesar Strauss on 2/20/2010 5:34 PM: > Since Windows in general doesn't have the concept of a symlink, MSYS > provides an emulation by copying, as a convenience.
Copying is different than symlinking. It is a disservice to some packages to claim that 'ln -s' works when it is not creating a symlink. > Unfortunately, this causes a false negative in an autoconf test: No, that would be a true negative. The inability to create circular or dangling symlinks is evidence that symlinks are not supported. > I don't think this test is reasonable. On a system with true symlinks, > this would create a symlink pointing to itself: And I don't see any reason to change that test, at least not without more convincing arguments. -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [email protected]
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