[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Emmanuel Duru > Version: 2.3.38 > OS: Windows > URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ > Submission from: (NULL) (195.68.44.148) > > > configure allows the use of "cp" instead of "ln", but the build/shtool tool > uses > a hardcoded "ln" (line 1266). > Some makefiles (libraries/liblunicode, libraries/libldap_r and > servers/slapd/back-hdb) use a hardcoded "-s" option. This is a problem on > Windows because in cygwin environment "cp -s" behaves the same way as "ln -s". > The use of "ln" is not welcome here because it creates a Windows shortcut, > which > is not understood by mingw compiler.
We only support the MSYS build environment on Windows. If you'd like to submit a patch to address this issue that doesn't break the other platforms, we can look at incorporating it. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
