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bug#7638: question about make link issue
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Jim Meyering |
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bug#7638: question about make link issue |
Date: |
Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:57:23 +0100 |
tags 7638 notabug
close 7638
thanks
Eric Blake wrote:
> [please keep the list in the loop]
>
> On 12/14/2010 10:09 PM, Yixuan Huang wrote:
>> Dear Eric,
>> Thanks for your response.
>> I ran ln on sles11 x64, and mount windos shared folder through mount -t cifs.
>> My scripts will do ln -s xx xx.so, so it will report error and said like:
>> tar: pegasus/lib/libpegcommon.so: Cannot create symlink to
>> `libpegcommon.so.1': Operation not supported
>
> Thanks for the additional information. It sounds like you are running
> into the issue on the Linux side of things, where you are locating files
> on a cifs mount hosted natively by Windows. Remember, Windows has very
> poor symlink support, and cifs is accurately reporting that it cannot
> create a symlink because the underlying file system on the native
> Windows side can't represent symlinks. This is not a bug in ln, but a
> fundamental limitation of your choice of file system.
Closing as "notabug".
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