On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > René Berber wrote: > > > A better fix is to link cygpq.dll to pq.dll: > > > > # ln /usr/bin/cygpq.dll /usr/bin/pq.dll > > That's not a great habit to get into. It will only work if the program > uses Cygwin methods (e.g. dlopen()) to dynamically load the dll at > runtime. It will absolutely not work for a .exe that was linked to a > .dll in the normal way, or for a program that uses LoadLibrary() at > runtime, because the windows dynamic loader has no idea what a symlink > is and you will get the "Can't locate DLL" popup.
"ln -s" creates a symlink, "ln" creates a hardlink. Windows understands hardlinks just fine. On filesystems that don't support hardlinks, "ln" will copy the file, which is the desired behavior. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA
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