Bin Meng <bmeng...@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Bin Meng <bin.m...@windriver.com>
>
> At present winsymlinks is set to 'nativestrict', and its behavior is:
>
>   a) if native symlinks are enabled and <target> exists, creates
>      <destination> as a native Windows symlink;
>   b) else if native symlinks are not enabled or if <target> does
>      not exist, 'ln -s' fails.
>
> This causes the following error message was seen during the configure:
>
>   "ln: failed to create symbolic link
>   'x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64.exe': No such file or directory"
>
> Change winsymlinks to 'native' whose behavior is most similar to the
> behavior of 'ln -s' on *nix, that is:
>
>   a) if native symlinks are enabled, and whether <target> exists
>      or not, creates <destination> as a native Windows symlink;
>   b) else if native symlinks are not enabled, and whether <target>
>      exists or not, 'ln -s' creates as a Windows shortcut file.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bin.m...@windriver.com>

Queued to testing/next, thanks.

-- 
Alex Bennée

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