Re: Cygwin, symlinks, and wine

2009-08-28 Thread Dan Kegel
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > This leads me to believe the best course of action is to solve this problem > in Wine and/or through  Unix/Linux means, rather than relying on patches > to the apps running in Wine. I tend to agree. I'm going to have a look at using xa

Re: Cygwin, symlinks, and wine

2009-08-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/28/2009 01:36 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 01:31:11AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 09:52:26PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: Although it seems strange to run cygwin on top of wine, doing so would make it possible to run a lot of build scripts

Re: Cygwin, symlinks, and wine

2009-08-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 01:31:11AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 09:52:26PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: >>Although it seems strange to run cygwin on top of wine, doing so would >>make it possible to run a lot of build scripts for windows apps >>unchanged, which would be very

Re: Cygwin, symlinks, and wine

2009-08-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 09:52:26PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: >Although it seems strange to run cygwin on top of wine, doing so would >make it possible to run a lot of build scripts for windows apps >unchanged, which would be very handy in verifying that wine works >properly (see http://wiki.winehq.or

Cygwin, symlinks, and wine

2009-08-27 Thread Dan Kegel
Although it seems strange to run cygwin on top of wine, doing so would make it possible to run a lot of build scripts for windows apps unchanged, which would be very handy in verifying that wine works properly (see http://wiki.winehq.org/UnitTestSuites ). The problem is, wine doesn't support the s